Kenneth Anger Quotes
I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
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Themes only arise after a novel is written, and people begin to try to talk about it.
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I was halfway through a rough draft of 'The Sisters Brothers' when it came time to start the 'Terri' adaptation.
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Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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'Rubberband' is a lot of things, but it's not a flashy record.
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It was easy to believe, between lessons on Shakespeare and Dickens and Austen, that all of the great stories had already been written by dead Europeans. But every time I saw 'The Outsiders', I knew better. It was the first time I'd realized that real people write books.
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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.
