Christian Marclay Quotes
With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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No, I'm not a horse better. Every once in a while somebody will give me a sure thing and of course it's not.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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I want to stay alive. Yeah, I want to stay alive. I think that's the main thing. If there's a chance I can live longer, I want to do it.
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If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
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Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as a writer.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more.
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I fly from the seat of my pants, basically.
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Actually, 19 is in charge of our career at that point. FOX publicity is in charge of the publicity that we get. I'm fine with it, it is really organized.
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Fighting forces, particularly ground forces, have to operate on the basis of unit cohesion.
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The advice I would give to girls from Eastern backgrounds who are interested in the arts is that it is always beneficial to get your academic studies out of the way before going into the competitive world of the arts.
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So many of the optimists in the world don't own a hundred dollars, and because of their optimism, never will.
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The most common cause of unanswered prayer is prayerlessness.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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The only thing that will guarantee your failure is quitting. Those who win in this life are not those who never fail. Winners are those who never quit.
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With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.
