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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep my phone on the floor in my bedroom, and I turn the sound off when I sleep, but I never really turn my phone off.
- Nostalgia
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- Nov 07, 2020
I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like 'Midnight in Paris.' Nostalgia isn't so enticing.
- Monkey
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Coming up, a lot of people I looked up to had a signature sound, but I came up, and I was always in search of one, trying to find it, trying to create one. I was never really able to have a creative signature sound, you know?
- Come
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always going to be heavy in producing. It's always going to come first. It never can't come first.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people are programmed to think, 'Oh, I want to do this, but I also want this.' It's like they want everything. You want your cake, and you want to eat it, too. Even though I guess you're supposed to eat cake, but I never really get that saying.
- Ever
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had an empty house. Ever.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the late '70s I was asked to sing for the first time in Germany. I'll never forget it. It was at a festival in Bremen. The German audience went berserk and the reviews were a phenomenon. For some reason the German audience understood how technically challenging this music was; it wasn't just someone yelling their head off.
- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Greenleaf' never mocks religion. It reminds us that people in churches are human, and no one is perfect.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a few games I knew I was going to be able to compete. The idea of being a star never crossed my mind.
- Movement
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movement is expressive. I've never denied that. I don't think there's such a thing as abstract dance.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always had this thing about moving around, and that has just remained, regardless of my physical changes. That feeling about it has never changed.
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
Joan Crawford is a movie queen. I had never met one before. I know now what I don't want to be.
- Nov 07, 2020
Blacks had a huge role in settling the West, but you'd never know it from Western movies.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been to film school. I had to leave this country to make a film. All they would let me do in Hollywood was be a messenger.
- Half The Time
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- Nov 07, 2020