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I am I, and I wish I weren’t.
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via drbedeliadumaurier)
Such a waste of talent. He chose money over power. In this town, a mistake nearly everyone makes. Money is the Mc-mansion in Sarasota that starts falling apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries. I cannot respect someone who doesn't see the difference.
-Francis Underwood - House of Cards
This jessica lange quote about jennifer lawrence from vanity fair is fictional. Check your source and stop filling my dash with garbage.
"Because NBC provides no audio for these encounters, we were forced to improvise." (source)
I think since I'm not particularly well-known as myself, it's funny all the different perceptions people have of me. Like, if someone's only seen me in 'Death Proof,' they think I'm sort of a ditzy girl who says stupid things and wears revealing outfits all the time. -Mary Elizabeth Winstead
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Drums were my first instrument, but I really hated it. My parents let me pick an instrument, which was cool, so I picked drums. But then they made me take drum lessons for four years, and I had really horrible teachers. One guy was on speed, all of the time, and was really scary. My mom didn’t realize it, and I didn’t know how to describe how this guy was acting. I didn’t understand that he was on speed until I was much older. And then I had to do school band, which was terrible, because I can’t stand wearing uniforms. I mean, drumline was pretty awesome, except for when we had to go to the football games. That was awful. I was a punk. It was against everything I believed in. I also hate carrying things, and I had a massive drum strapped to me that weighted a ton. I was just so unhappy.
Alison Mosshart
I've always felt a need to have a life which is completely separate - at least as far as possible - from the kind of illusory lifestyle that comes with being a celebrity.
-Winona Ryder
I never write lyrics out of context with the music. I never sit with a notebook and just start writing lyrics. I do it just with my headphones on, listening to whatever music sketches they've sent me, singing along. Most of the time, I'm looking for rhythm and melody, and by not worrying about lyrics I'll free associate with whatever comes to mind. I think sometimes the mood of the music that I'm singing to will pull me in directions lyrically. Often, I've gotten the credit or blame for the band being thought of as a dark, moody, miserablist band, or whatever we've been called over the years, but I think a lot of that comes from the music, and I'm just reacting to it. I will admit that I easily and happily go to some of the sentimental and melodramatic, dark places in my head and heart, but I'm reacting to the music most of the time.(x)
Matt Berninger of The National
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"That Blanchett could appear in the same Toronto Film Festival playing Elizabeth and Bob Dylan, both splendidly, is a wonder of acting."
- Roger Ebert
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“An actor must interpret life and, in order to do so, must be willing to accept all the experiences life has to offer. In fact, he must seek out more of life than life puts at his feet. In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible. He must be superhuman in his efforts to store away in the core of his subconscious everything that he might be called upon to use in the expression of his art.”
When I was a kid, you know I immigrated to the States in 1978, and I’m six years old and watching TV and I didn’t see any Asians on television. And you turn on Star Trek and there’s this Asian guy not chopping anybody up. He’s honorable, a helmsman of a spaceship, and it was a big, big deal for me to see that and have a role model.
John Cho (x)
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The odd thing about this life is that you spend half your time trying to get people to listen to you and the rest of the time trying to get them to leave you the fuck alone.
Tom Waits (via chriswaltzs)
Source: Guardian
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You cannot live life without consequences. Whenever you do something, there will be a consequence. Just like violence [on film] only works if there’s a consequence. You can’t just be violent for violence’s sake, because it’s not emotionally engaging. - Nicolas Winding Refn
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“I ended up landing more in the realm of a psychopath – someone with very little to no conscience towards his acts. Nothing intimidates me, and everything is a big joke”
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If I have to see another slow-motion bullet come out of a gun, pierce somebody’s skull and spray their brains on the wall, I’m going to puke. I have kids. I can’t hardly watch an afternoon football game with them without having to turn off the TV during the commercials. It’s too much. I don’t know when violence was deemed such a cinematic thing. I think it must have been Sam Peckinpah who started it. But Peckinpah’s violence was always writhing in the flames of his characters. I felt like there was a true human suffering in his violence. Nowadays, I’m seeing violence that’s so fetishised and so cool, and I can’t stand it. I can’t stand the irresponsibility of guns, and gun violence in movies. I didn’t even want to have a gun in this movie [The Place Beyond the Pines], but it’s a cop and robber story – there had to be guns. I wasn’t interested in how realistic I could make the brains or the blood, I was interested in the events and the adrenaline and choices that led up to this one violent moment.
Blue Valentine writer/director Derek Cianfrance on gun violence in movies (x)
“Sometimes I am two people. Johnny is the nice one. Cash causes all the trouble. They fight.”
― Johnny Cash
“I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there's a lot to be said for that.”
― Johnny Cash
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Suffering is good. Suffering is the only way to understand what you’re about. - James Dean