Austin Quotes - Page 3

• I hadn't done a comedy for a while. I had directed a very low budget movie called The Ape and it was playing at a festival in Austin. Judd [Apatow] was there and he came and saw it and it's kind of funny.

  Seth Rogen

  Done, Festivals, Saws

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• I'm halfway through a novel set in two time frames - Austin in the 1960's and Alpine (Texas) in present day. It started out to be a small, lighthearted, humorous book about family relationships; I was tired of writing war stories and tragedies.

  Elizabeth Crook

  War, Humorous, Book

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• Mini-Me was the pint sized clone that was the perpetuation of Dr. Evil's own legacy [in Austin Powers]. That concept earned the sequel.

  Jay Roach

  Evil, Legacy, Drs

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I love Dr. Evil [from Austin Powers] as a walking, talking, narcissistic manifestation of everything screwed up about human existence - his desire to take over the world, and have the world reflect his own power lust.

  Jay Roach

  Talking, Evil, Lust

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• When we did the first sequel [of the Austin Powers] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well when it was released on video, so we really didn't know what to do with the second plot.

  Jay Roach

  Plot, Video, Firsts

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I never really set out to research any of these stories. I try to lead an interesting life though. I guess the closest I came to research was when I applied to work at the state mental institution in Austin, TX. I wanted to work the night shift like Ken Kesey did when he wrote One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I thought that might inspire me to write a book that great.

  Arthur Bradford

  Book, Writing, Night

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• Common sense doesn't have the last word in ethics or anywhere else, but it has, as J. L. Austin said about ordinary language, the first word: it should be examined before it is discarded.

  Thomas Nagel

  Common Sense, Psychology, Ordinary

  Thomas Nagel (1989). “The View From Nowhere”, p.166, Oxford University Press

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• I think Austin is read more now than Charles Dickens, and Dickens was much more popular in his day. She endures because of her classicism.

  Whit Stillman

  Thinking, Endure, Classicism

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• My roommate in college in Austin, Texas, was Wes Anderson. Wes always wanted to be a director. I was an English major in college, and he got us to work on a screenplay together. And then, in working on the screenplay, he wanted my brother, Luke, and me to act in this thing. We did a short film that was kind of a first act of what became Bottle Rocket.

  Owen Wilson

  Brother, College, Texas

  Interview with Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 15, 2016.

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• If you rent a U-Haul to move your company, it costs twice as much to go from San Francisco to Austin than the other way around, because you can't find enough trucks to leave the Golden State.

  Rick Perry

  Moving, San Francisco, Cost

  "Why Rick Perry Is So Wrong About California And New York", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2014.

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• Does anybody have, a cold beer for Steve Austin?!??!!?

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Beer, Wwe, Doe

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• Become a champion like Stone Cold Steve Austin!

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Wwe, Champion, Stones

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• When we had ideas that earned there way in [Austin Powers], it began to get okay. The hook for me was 'Mini-Me.' We only auditioned one guy - Verne Troyer - and at the time I said, 'we have to get this guy, get him life insurance, whatever he needs' because there was no other way or actor to do it. It was amazing to me just to talk to him...he was Mini-Me.

  Jay Roach

  Ideas, Guy, Needs

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity, which I try to avoid. Austin is a great sort of stepping-off point, if you like. I'm from a temperate climate.

  Robert Plant

  Creativity, Ambition, Mean

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 25, 2013.

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• To this day, people ask me where is Austin Powers 4? I don't have that answer, it so hard to come up with a story that deserves an encore like that.

  Jay Roach

  People, Stories, Answers

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line!

  Stone Cold Steve Austin

  Lines, Stones, Stone Cold Steve Austin

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• How could I have not known about Ume? An Austin trio fronted by a whirling dervish of singer guitarist who in the standard PR band head shot looks like she wouldn't hurt a fly; yet give her a guitar, a Marshall stack and a mic and stand back, way back. She shreds. File under - Do Not Overlook and Go Tell Your Friends

  Dave Allen

  Hurt, Guitar, Giving

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• I remember I was very taken with a book called DreamTigers by [Jorge Luis] Borges. He was at the University of Texas, Austin, and they collected some of his writings and put them in a little collection. It's called DreamTigers in English, but it doesn't exist in Spanish. It's a little sampler. But that collection in English is what struck me, because in there he has his poems, and I was a poet as well as a fiction writer.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Taken, Writing

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. I'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. I know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (Waterloo Music in Austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.

  Charles de Lint

  Mean, Mind, Labels

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• During the cold war, West Berlin was an exclave - a tiny outpost of liberalism surrounded by people who want to crush it. It was like Austin, Texas.

  Craig Ferguson

  Crush, War, Texas

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• The improbability of a malicious story serves but to help forward the currency of it, because it increases the scandal. So that, in such instances, the world is like the pious St. Austin, who said he believed some things because they were absurd and impossible.

  Laurence Sterne

  Scandal, Stories, World

  Laurence Sterne (1803). “The works of Laurence Sterne, with a life of the author, written by himself”

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• I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

  Jeff Abbott

  Moving, Thinking, Creative

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• What we've witnessed in the past 25 or 30 years is just incredible. We've birthed 30,000 or 40,000 restaurants. I used to go to Europe every year to get experience [and ideas]. I don't go to Europe anymore. I go to Oregon, I go to Washington, I go to Louisiana, I go to Little Rock, I go to Austin, I travel New York City. I don't go to Europe anymore.

  Geoffrey Zakarian

  New York, Past, Rocks

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• I've noticed that girls between like 20 and 30 seem to know 'Can't Hardly Wait.' I got the goth kids who know 'Buffy.' I got this wide spectrum of people who range from like 8 to 13 who seem to know 'Scooby-Doo.' Then I get the international people who seem to know 'Austin Powers' and 'The Italian Job.

  Seth Green

  Girl, Jobs, Kids

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• There's so much music in Austin, and it's all so different.

  Gary Clark, Jr.

  Different

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