"Select only things to steal that speak directly……" — Jim Jarmusch
"Select only things to steal that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent"
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54 Quotes by Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch has 54 quotes on this site.
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I'd wanted to be a writer and when I came back to New York worked as a musician too, but…
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Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
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I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played…
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It's a sad and beautiful world.
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Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy,
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Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs,…
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Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent.…
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Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul.
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Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
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I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.
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I'm like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit.…
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I've always loved films, always. I studied literature and I went to Columbia in New York and I went to…
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More Authentic Quotes
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In the history of Wikileaks, nobody has claimed that the material being put out is not authentic.
— Julian Assange
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds…
— Allan Bloom
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I love eating shabu-shabu in Japan - a kind of beef hotpot. But if you're talking about authentic, traditional food,…
— Andrea Bocelli
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The world of crime is a last refuge of the authentic, uncorrupted, spontaneous event.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
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Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places…
— Anthony Bourdain
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It makes it fun. When an actor plays a character, you want what that character wants. Otherwise it doesn't look…
— Alan Alda
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Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any…
— Albert Camus
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Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.
— John le Carre
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I see it as my duty in some way is to be out in the world as an Australian putting…
— Nick Cave
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When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the…
— Marc Chagall
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You know, I think what the American people want more than anything else right now is someone who's just going…
— Chris Christie
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People always tell me, 'Reinvent yourself, re-this, re-whatever.' I haven't reinvented myself. It's an honest evolution. I've always been authentic.
— Pamela Anderson
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