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No construction stiff working overtime takes more stress and straining than we did just to stay high.
Gus Van Sant
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Gus Van Sant
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 24
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Louisville
Kentucky
Gus Greene Van Sant Junior
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Narcotics have been systematically scapegoated and demonized. The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is ananathema to these idiots. I predict that in the near future, right wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.
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Wong Kar-Wai is a really great inspiration. He's always referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of filmmaking.
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If Im diagnosed with cancer I might become despondent, but someone young might not, and they might need connections with somebody outside their circle of family because their family is so despondent.
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If you don't have the story and the unfolding of the trajectory of the saga, it's like getting in a car and not having any gas.
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Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.
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