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I think that everyone should get married at least once, so you can see what a silly, outdated institution it is.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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I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.
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I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers.
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There's been an enormous awakening, and I think recognition that the mass shootings we saw in Sandy Hook and other places are very related to the shootings we see every day in our cities.
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I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'
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People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.
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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.
