Christian Marclay Quotes
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Also, an area that interests me – and it will probably take years to state what I mean – is the period of the rise of democracy, with Tom Paine, which is around the turn of the 18th century into the 19th.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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No 27-year-old has the experience to run a company that does a quarter of a billion dollars a year in sales.
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I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.
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I've been on sets my whole life.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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I don't consider myself a competition to anyone. There is ample space for everyone here. When there are directors who create characters for me, why should I feel bothered or insecure? When it comes to updating myself, I work very hard to relate to the emotions of characters I play.
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The Mayo Clinic is one of the largest and most experienced medical centers treating esophageal cancer in the world.
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I'm not a success, I'm a sensation.
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I never took guitar lessons. I took classical piano lessons from the age of six when we lived in Holland.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?
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It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
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Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public.
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Bring me my bow of burning gold: Bring me my arrows of desire: Bring me my spear: O clouds, unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire.
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Nature does abhor a vacuum, and when you begin moving out of your life what you do not want, you automatically are making way for what you do want. By letting go of the lesser, you automatically make room for your greater good to come in.
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I personally made a decision many years ago that I wanted to crawl into portraiture because it had a lot of latitude.
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What is certain is that singing is not merely modulating a song by means of the voice: we sing and we celebrate the beauty that we can grow and live every day. If you want to sing and give emotions to those who are listening, you must have something to tell through your singing; you have to use singing like an instrument to tell something.
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As an artist, you're always somewhat obscure. We're not talking Hollywood.
