Jim Morrison Quotes
I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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One thing I hear a lot is, 'Dude, my mom loves your record,' or 'I got it for my dad for Christmas.' I'm essentially doing dad rock. Which is great, because I love Steely Dan, you know? Nothing wrong with dad rock!
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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I love nature - it's probably my most favorite thing. I don't watch much telly, the telly hardly goes on, but the things I do watch are sort of nature programs, and something about the oceans and the amount of weird fish that's in there.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.
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If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
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Knots Landing is the best thing that ever happened to me.
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Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.
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In feature films, unless there was a body count, they weren't hiring me to direct it.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.
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The only thing I change mainly is my sneakers. I love sneakers. But everything's sort of black or jeans. Jeans, always.
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Nothing surprises me. One thing I don't ever have in my world is surprise.
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He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.
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That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
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I thought Essence had a lot more points. She seemed more active.
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I'm in bed, so to speak, more with those people who consider themselves atheists but who are concerned about the same things, ideas, and politics I'm concerned with than those who claim to be religious in the same way that I am but have no interest in the political reorganization of society, which needs to be talked about from the pulpit.
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If science is to progress, what we need is the ability to experiment, honesty in reporting results—the results must be reported without somebody saying what they would like the results to have been—and finally—an important thing—the intelligence to interpret the results.
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I like to let each thing happen - direct it a little consciously, maybe - but just kind of follow the vibrations I get in each particular circumstance. We don't plan theatrics. We hardly ever know which set we'll play.
