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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.
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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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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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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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It's up to you to define your own brand of leadership and your own version of success.
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One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.
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I never want to lose sight of my roots... A lot of artists want the riches and the fame. I want to tell stories you can put into the context of your life.
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It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.
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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.
