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Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes

To have hands, to have fingers, is weird. Real life is weird, to have fingers?

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: chilean
Birth: February 17, 1929

Topics

Life Weird Hands Real Real Life

It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.

Life Path Imagination Amazing Safety

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

New York Writing Reading New Going

Love is what makes you dream, and love is what makes you want to get up in the morning. Love is something that you want to be a part of because it makes you better.

Love Morning Love Is Better You Up

I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.

Roberto Cavalli

Mother Child Remember Cry Disaster

Mid-afternoon, I snack on Greek yogurt with nuts or a green juice from Juice Press.

Mary Helen Bowers

Green Snack Juice Nuts Press Yogurt

Every actor has an obsession with their hair. You can see it on set, and you start to realize it's completely silly. I can be very obsessed by my hair, but all these hours spent trying to style it are useless, because ultimately, you can't change your haircut. It's all the same.

Change Style Hair Start Haircut You

I don't really premeditate what I write my songs about; you know, they just kind of happen, and I can't start writing songs to please a certain group of people or propagate a certain message all the time. That's just not how my songwriting works - it just sort of comes out, and the songs are what they are.

Time People Writing Start You Know

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

Community Great Yourself Empathy Me

I've always gone to see all kinds of shows and stole what I could, as we all do. We see an artist and hear a song and think, 'I bet I could sing that song. I'll put that in my show.'

Song Think Artist Always See Gone

It's more than a game. It's an institution.

Game More Institution Than

It might be inevitable that we have to confront the idea that our destiny is to be one world with one language.

World Destiny Language Inevitable

I now get to have the life I wanted when I was 18 years old. Now, I'm like, 'I can buy any skateboard I want.'

Life I Can Now Want Old Years

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