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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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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Bombs do very, very bad things to human bodies. It's incredibly shocking to see.
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I've been lucky enough that in the U.K., I've done shows that have aired once a week. I make a show there that runs seasonally, and we make one episode a week, and that is great - the value of time. You can really think and finesse what you want to do.
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Sometimes you can just step into the character, and you get all your feelings and emotions just from sympathizing with her and being her. But then, other times, you just have to resort back to anything that you've been through in your own life and try to play that.
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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!.
