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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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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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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Taking advantage of someone in return for work is the most disgusting thing ever.
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Dick Clark was a really great influence in my career; he helped me a lot with his whole organization, and they were awesome to me at all different points - but one thing that I really disagreed with him on was when he said that what I do, pop music, is a disposable art form.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.
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There is only one thing a writer can write about: what is in front of his senses at the moment of writing... I am a recording instrument... I do not presume to impose "story" "plot" "continuity"... Insofar as I succeed in Direct recording of certain areas of psychic process I may have limited function... I am not an entertainer.
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Political statements are usually more direct, and it works with the upbeat music as well, for some reason, the directness of your statements.
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We Jews have been too adaptable. We have been too eager to sacrifice our idiosyncrasies for the sake of social conformity. … Even in modern civilization, the Jew is most happy if he remains a Jew.
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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.
