Christian Marclay Quotes
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I'm committed to sign in everything I communicate, but I also speak. I still believe that I reach more people when I do that. I bridge two different cultures and two different worlds, and I think that bridge still needs work.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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I think she has more gospel style than I do. I think I'm more, umm, you know mainstream I guess. I don't know if we split the vote. That could be possible but I don't think we are the same at all.
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I've always loved projects where I can combine acting and music.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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My sister is dyslexic, and she's so smart, so intelligent in all of the ways that matter.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the developing world.
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I make a mean peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
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I love Toni Morrison and Jeanette Winterson. 'The Passion' is my favourite book.
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Television really has been my vehicle. I don't get played on the radio much, so I've relied on TV a lot.
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But I loved the theatre and I was just doing theatre 24/7 and kept dropping courses because I didn't have the time and the chancellor thought that wasn't a good idea after awhile.
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Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.
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I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.
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I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.
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If, if a white man puts his arm around me voluntarily, that's brotherhood. But if you - if you hold a gun on him and make him embrace me and pretend to be friendly or brotherly toward me, then that's not brotherhood, that's hypocrisy.
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DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
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How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?
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Oh, this isn't a talk show; it's more just filling time, really, 'til the infomercials start.
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My dad was a theatrical guy. He wore a scuba suit one time because he said so-and-so was in the tank with the mayor. He didn't really care what people thought, so he was able to put himself out there. He didn't have a lot of shame, in a good way.
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You start with an idea but then so many things can happen.
