Ken Spillman Quotes
My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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I never wore a single fedora filming 'L.A. Noire.' It took about an hour and a half to do the hair - it was a very precise process.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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I enjoy music wherever it's coming from.
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The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I am not trying to conform to an unrealistic model of beauty. I am, however, being proactive in being the healthiest I can be.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
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I'm not interested in a rock/jazz fusion.
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Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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Nothing, nothing justifies terrorism.
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What beauty can compare to that of a cantina in the early morning?
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All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder.
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Fox was interested in a different title to 'Independence Day.'
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When working with classical musicians, it is important to be clear as possible in the score about what my intentions are. Because there isn't a lot of rehearsal time, especially at the ballet, it's best if everything is written in the score.
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More than comparing with somebody else, I'd prefer comparing my own work from film to film.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.
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A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
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Every so often I'll go back down to earth and I'll make reference to a phone or a house or something, something that's a bit more real. But I suppose what that does, is it puts you in a surreal place but also my music doesn't get too carried away in that sense, which I quite like.
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My aunt could never understand how writing could be a full-time job. She'd keep asking when I'd get a real job!.
