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" I don't believe in singing lessons. You can sing or you can't. "
Harry Dean Stanton
Believe
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" I know I've got the ability to bring a sense of menace to the screen. I have that specific competence, and it's generally kept me working. "
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" But I'm not imaginative. I couldn't look into the future, like Star Wars or Robots or anything like that. "
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" Do nothing. Do nothing. Let it happen. Don't try. "
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" You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. "
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" I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color. "
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" I have a good ear for languages. "
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" The most terrifying thing for most everybody in the whole Western World is to take responsibility for your own life and to experience real freedom. "
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" I like to stay home and watch television. The Game Show channel, mostly. "
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" Silence is the most powerful state. "
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" I worked with the best directors - Martin Scorsese, John Huston, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock. Alfred Hitchcock was great. "
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" Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe. "
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" I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do? "
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" The void, the concept of nothingness, is terrifying to most people on the planet. And I get anxiety attacks myself. I know the fear of that void. You have to learn to die before you die. You give up, surrender to the void, to nothingness. "
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" I would've preferred to blossom earlier in life. "
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" You get older. In the end, you end up accepting everything in your life - suffering, horror, love, loss, hate - all of it. "
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" I just want to say, good night, sweet prince, may flights of angels sing thee to thy rest. "
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Good
" I've never seen a Western that was really truthful. Most are just morality plays. Good guys and bad guys - and the good guys always win, whereas in reality, most of the sheriffs were as bad as the gangsters they were after. "
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" I've been blessed. I've worked with a lot of good people. "
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Good People
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" California is full of Mexican culture and Mexican music. "
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" I'm just dealing with what's happening, with what is. Joy, happiness, good, bad, all those terms are meaningless to me. "
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" I think any performing artist can do films, or, as a matter of fact, anybody out there in the street can be a film actor with no experience whatsoever if you've got a good director. "
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" I've got a pretty iconoclastic attitude about all institutions myself. And I just think the church was corrupted right after Christ was killed. "
Harry Dean Stanton
Church
Myself
Right