Cliff Martinez Quotes
When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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I feel that everything I do in my life I can do in a shorter time than most men can. It's the quality, not the quantity.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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I'm not an agent from any government, even if some of you may not believe it. I'm not. I'm a peacemaker.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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A lot of people in the media, and some everyday people, really aren't in search of the truth. They're in search of something worse than that. Money, yeah. I think the media's the kind of a thing where the truth doesn't win, because it's no fun. The truth's no fun.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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I'd love to have our trains, our subway cars and our taxis built right here in New York City. You can create 40,000 living wage jobs... the city's contracting power is huge.
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I tend to not try and listen to a lot of other artists while I'm writing, because if I hear something that's brilliant.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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I spend my own money, not other people's money.
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I always have said that the most valuable thing I have isn't money; it's my time.
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When you've finished the film and everybody's already made back all their money, everybody just leaves you alone and I'm very happy. That's what it has to be like.
