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Whit Stillman Quotes

In Mexico, wealth and poverty live next to each other and are cordial with each other - in my experience.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: January 25, 1952

Topics

Live Experience Poverty Wealth Next

I was really young, just playing with puppets a lot and doing all the voices and acting it out - normal kid stuff. But then I'd hear my mother talking about it to her relatives, marveling at it as if it was something unique. And it made me realize, 'Oh, maybe I do have a talent for something.'

Mother Talent Me Doing Talking Kid

I've been doing my record label for 15 years called Dim Mak. I started my label when I was 19 in '96. I started putting out an eclectic roster of artists. In 2003, we found a band called Bloc Party, and in 2004, we started getting remixes for Bloc Party, and at the same time I was throwing Dim Mak parties in Los Angeles.

Time Doing Party Los Angeles Band

I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.

Myself Me Anybody Else Does

I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

Cool Thought Picture Up Pretty Poet

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

Life Chance Regret Mouth Denver Hit

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that.

Chuck Palahniuk

Time People Me Legs Write See

Since the nineteen-fifties, rural Florida has marketed itself to Northerners and Midwesterners as an unexplored paradise of citrus and mermaids.

Paradise Florida Rural Citrus Since

If your friend's feeling bad, it's hard to know what to do. Do you back away or try to help them? It's a really hard situation that I've been in. You want to support your friend. You want to be there. My advice is, don't get too involved with it, just be by their side. If they need your help, they'll ask for it.

Friend Support Advice Help You Bad

I never took a music lesson in my life, it just came naturally.

Life Music My Life Lesson Never

'Sports Illustrated' has set the standard for what a swimsuit model should be. For a magazine that has that much influence to include models of different body types on their pages shows that they're breaking down old beauty ideals while opening the doors of diversity and inclusivity.

Beauty Sports Diversity Influence

I suppose most crime writing is urban. There's not a lot... certainly not in Australia, people don't often set books in the countryside.

People Writing Australia Crime Urban

I was buttoned up as a kid. I did what I was told and never broke the rules.

Rules Never Kid Up Broke Did

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