Christian Marclay Quotes
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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Ultimately, I'm not the most prolific person, but I've been doing this for a long time, and I keep on putting out music. The only thing that drives music is the people who are making it.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don't know if you've seen any great MCs on stage but when you do it's like wow, this is more than the words to rhymes.
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Approaching people for work has not worked for me. People who came to me with work has worked.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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Just think about it: what in the name of God would Alabama be without the University of Alabama? What would Oklahoma be without the University of Oklahoma? Nothing.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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To see the faces and hear the voices of victims of the Holocaust - one of the darkest chapters in history - was an experience I will never forget.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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Amanda Hocking and Hugh Howey have been successful in their self-publishing ventures. But notice that Hocking would prefer to write and hand over the editing, promotion, and selling to a traditional publisher.
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Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.
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I guess if you stay around long enough, they can't get rid of you.
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Hansel is certainly about comfort, while still sort of having a peacock principle of wanting to attract attention.
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It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.
