Walead Beshty Quotes
There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they could.
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America's Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America's Sweetheart. Don't take husbands from America's Sweethearts.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a certain road.
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The Secure Fence Act, which authorizes the construction of 700 miles of security barriers along the southwest border, has now been sent to President Bush for his signature. This piece of legislation is an important piece of the border security puzzle.
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One of the advantages of this found footage format is that you can have deliberately badly composed frames. Here we can put a camera in the weirdest angle and it kind of throws you off. You never know what you are supposed to be paying attention to. It's deliberate chaos.
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When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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I went to Catholic school throughout my whole academic life. In fact, my children - my husband and I and our children in my own family now have over 100 years of Catholic education among us.
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Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.
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Music is probably one of the most honest things out there - it's feral.
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And then I went round the corner and there's a Van Gogh portrait, and you just think, well, this is another level. A higher level, actually. I love the Sargent, but it's not the level of Van Gogh.
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If incarceration had come to define the lives of men from impoverished black neighborhoods, eviction was shaping the lives of women. Poor black men were locked up. Poor black women were locked out.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
