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Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Quote by Chuck Palahniuk about birh, mistake, life, contentment

I've dropped myself into straightforward character pieces in order to explore that form and reap its values. But you are sort of restricted visually when your first requirement is to tell a fairly straightforward story

Quote by Brian De Palma about character, order, contentment

It's always great when you discover someone.

Quote by Brian De Palma about revelation, contentment

Only in the fact that I was kind of a science wonk in the '50s. You know, won a lot of science fairs, built computers.

Quote by Brian De Palma about science, computers, contentment

Sure, but you learn, if you're going to shoot a straightforward story, that you're going to be shooting a lot of close-ups.

Quote by Brian De Palma about teaching, contentment

That's what noir feels like to me. It feels like some kind of recurring dream, with very strong archetypes operating. You know, the guilty girl being pursued, falling, all kinds of stuff that we see in our dreams all the time.

Quote by Brian De Palma about pleasure, dream, being, time, contentment

The biggest mistake in student films is that they are usually cast so badly, with friends and people the directors know. Actually you can cover a lot of bad direction with good acting.

Quote by Brian De Palma about human imperfections, students, mistake, bad luck, bad, good, good luck, people, contentment

Well, I just think through your career you go through different phases, and I just got sort of uninspired by the whole studio process of making and releasing films.

Quote by Brian De Palma about opinion, career, contentment

Well, like any time you're shooting documentary stuff, you've got to be in the moment, and you've got to be able to be in control enough to capture what's happening.

Quote by Brian De Palma about contentment, moment, time

When you make a movie outside the system and it's successful critically or a moderate financial success, you usually have to go back into the system and make a big hit.

Quote by Brian De Palma about success, contentment

Yeah, when I write all the time, the advantage of using the Web is just unbelievable. You know, to find out information.

Quote by Brian De Palma about time, contentment

You know it's always amazed me I think the most startling thing that's happened in the last couple of decades is that there is no sort of objective reporting anymore.

Quote by Brian De Palma about happiness, purpose, couple, things, contentment

You know, I listen to contemporary music all the time.

Quote by Brian De Palma about music, time, contentment

You know, when people want to get any information, research information, it will all exist on these Web sites.

Quote by Brian De Palma about research, people, contentment

You really are as hot as your last movie. And it goes away really quickly.

Quote by Brian De Palma about contentment

And, you know, no one really thinks about records and home runs and career things.

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about opinion, career, home, things, contentment

But I think mainly, you know, just up in the East Coast, it's where it all originated. You know, Philadelphia. It goes back to the beginning. So, you know, fans have a lot of history, and they love their teams up here.

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about originality, beginning, history, contentment, love

I wish that they could have more freedoms to be able to come and play. I know that the only way that they can get out is by, you know, defecting to another country or whatever, or getting on a boat

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about liberty, wish, country, contentment

I would love to go back and help rebuild that country and help - you know, kind of like what's going on with Iraq right now. You know, they've got a new government in place. They're trying to rebuild the country. I would love for that to happen in...

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about love, help, country, rightness, contentment

I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.

Quote by Rafael Palmeiro about happiness, chance, family, experience, life, real estate, contentment