- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mind Quotes
What occupies the mind, for better or worse.
Quotes about the "mind" here range widely — a lifelong search for hidden meaning sits alongside a startlingly honest admission that resentment has occupied more mental space than friendship ever did. For related reflection, see Body quotes.
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- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I was a businessman, I could have made a huge amount of money. But none of that really crossed my mind while I was young and traveling.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Culture has worked by coming to exercise a form of mind control over us. We willingly accept and even embrace this mind control, and probably without even knowing it.
- Nov 07, 2020
The interesting thing about something in the back of your mind is that it can travel pretty far back in your mind.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was involved with 'Star Wars,' I was very interested in all the backstories, and I used to pepper George with all kinds of questions about anything that crossed my mind, because I was very, very into it. But when the job came to an end, I had to move on.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Supermodel' was a hard record for me; it was an emotional record to write. I was purging a lot of stuff with that album, and I think the one thing I didn't really consider, that I'd be supporting it for two years and living in that state of mind every night.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Pumped Up Kicks' is written from the perspective like Truman Capote wrote 'In Cold Blood' or Dostoevsky wrote 'Crime & Punishment.' It's psychologically breaking down someone's state of mind and diving in and walking in their shoes.
- Film And Television
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I've worked in film and television for so long, I've acquired the ability to let the version of the characters that lives in my mind make way for the living, breathing humans who are going to play them on screen. If you cast it right - and casting is about 80% of directing - they will eventually replace or exceed the imaginary image.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have traveled down this path before - 'List of Seven' and 'Twin Peaks' both have thematic similarities - but 'Paladin' took me much deeper into the intuitive underground. Always bearing in mind Joseph Campbell's Rule No. 1: When entering a labyrinth, don't forget your ball of twine.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the most important keys to getting through to anyone and then influencing them is to realize that inside everyone's mind, they listen to someone or something.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020