Marlon Wayans Quotes
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I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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I can do a little bit of comedy. I can be in an in-between place, where I can do a little bit.
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It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Music is an art that touches the depth of human existence; an art of sounds that crosses all borders.
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I believe love at first sight is possible. Centuries of literature and art and beauty has been dedicated to that idea, so who am I to argue, even if I've never experienced it?
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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I like romantic comedy as a genre, but I think it can get stuck in its ways.
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When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.
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Many attempts have been made by writers on art and poetry to define beauty in the abstract, to express it in the most general terms, to find some universal formula for it.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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We must not show to all and sundry the secrets of the waters flowing in ocean and river, or the devices that work on these waters. Let there be convened a council of experts and masters in mechanical art to deliberate what is needed to compose and construct these works.
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All the art for Tool is done by the me and the band.
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In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.
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The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
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Movies are very subjective.
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I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.
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People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.
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In a world that is supposedly over-producing I find that good of the better class are still in short supply…
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There's an art to comedy.
