Christian Marclay Quotes
It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.
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I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.
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It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.
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None of the longest-lived people ran marathons or pumped iron. They live exactly as their grandparents before them - surrounded by family and friends.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
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My success was due to good luck, hard work, and support and advice from friends and mentors. But most importantly, it depended on me to keep trying after I had failed.
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When they're good, I like working with new actors.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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Many women are so wounded that they can't love another person.
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The funny thing about me is I'm kind of schizophrenic, because after four or five nights in a row of going out to parties, I just have to be alone. I hate people and feel like they're keeping me from what I really want to do, like write a fabulous novel, which I probably never will.
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It's good to get away from the editing suite. It's very unhealthy to be sitting in front of the screen for too long.
