- Nov 07, 2020
Someone Quotes
On the someones who shape a moment.
This page includes praise for a steady presence who doesn't panic under pressure, and a note on a fictional character built to feel relatable even in impossible circumstances. For similar reflections, see Know.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My first Ramones show was at a small club in Columbus, Ohio, in 1978. It was a transformative experience, even though my memories are a little blurry, since someone kicked me in the head halfway through the show, probably during 'Beat on the Brat.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to realise that hypnosis doesn't exist: it just works on people's natural suggestibility, their expectations and capacity to unconsciously role play. You can't make someone do anything they don't want to do.
- Place
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearly if a hypnotist could make someone to steal £100k just by telling them to, the world would be a different place, and I suspect that hypnotists wouldn't bother doing shows in pubs or dodgy Spanish holiday resorts.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
You've just got to deliver the first blow. In football, you're going to get hit. Don't let someone deliver the hit to you. You've got to deliver the hit to them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like I have been portrayed as if I was standing outside Cipriani hoping someone picks me as their plus-one.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
From making documentaries all these years, it doesn't feel right to lead someone. In narratives, I'm always trying to shoot as though it's really happening, and I trust my actors are going to make decisions that I'm going to be following. I want to follow them.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've discovered new parts of my manhood, places I couldn't get to without loving someone else unconditionally and putting others before myself.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, a dream partner is someone who is willing to learn and to put their trust in me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paul knew I could sing, write and play, and so he rang me. It knocked me sideways a little because I wasn't used to being a sidekick. That was the first time I'd been with a band with someone more famous than me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I think a role model is a mentor - someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What people fail to realize is that any album we did, really, 90 percent of it reflected the songs people brought in. If someone had brought in two great rock songs for 'Cornerstone'... they would have been on that record.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I was always going to bed creating a story, and that was the birth of filmmaking for me. I would like going to the dream-state by telling the story to someone else in my mind. That was my imaginary friend; it was an imaginary audience listening to my story.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
- Concert Hall
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's clear on the one hand that an education enriches and informs a response to beauty, even makes it possible in esoteric cases. On the other hand, there's no question that someone with no musical education whatsoever might wander into a concert hall and be overwhelmed by the 'Beethoven Pastoral Symphony'.
- Fruit
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- Nov 07, 2020