Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world
ABEL FERRARAAs barbaric is we are, it’s a miracle we haven’t blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.
More Abel Ferrara Quotes
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I’m trying to chill it and find an equilibrium and a balance to my work.
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There are a lot of other things that are important, you know. You know what they say. Life is what happens when you’re doing other things, right?
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Although I guess being a poet is a different than having to deal with 40 or 50 people to raise a couple million bucks and all that bullshit.
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My grandfather lived to be 96 years old. He was born in a town outside of Salerno in Southern Italy.
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I’m a lapsed Buddhist like I’m a lapsed Catholic. I take it to a point.
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You know, these month – or two-month-long endeavors that millions of dollars are based on.
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He brought his food with him, he brought his language with him, he never spoke a word of English.
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I grew up in the Bronx. I’m into rap music.
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I don’t want to live anywhere where I’m breathing two million cars’ fumes and paying a zillion dollars for the right to be totally hassled.
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And get off your spot and take that knowledge you have not to fix yourself into a place but to keep going.
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When I talk about drugs and alcohol, I’m talking about sex addiction, gambling addiction, eating addiction, throwing-up addiction. I’m not talking about mental illness.
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With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.
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The limits of my imagination is the only thing that’s gonna stop me.
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I don’t care if I get $50 million to do a film.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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