Bill Viola Quotes
When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
Quotes to Explore
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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Planning bores me. I like to go with the flow. Being whimsical is nice, occasionally. It keeps things fresh; there's no expectation.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I have a Rhodesian Ridgeback dog named Lola.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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The first reports of AIDS closely followed the inauguration of President Ronald Reagan, whose 'family values' agenda and alliance with Christian conservatives associated AIDS with deviance and sin.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.
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Though death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.
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People presume we've been somehow monitoring the entire sky at all frequencies, all the time, but we haven't yet been able to do any of those things. The fact is, all the SETI efforts to date have only closely examined a couple thousand nearby stars, and we're only just now learning which of those might have promising planets.
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quoted in American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good (2015)
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Once a Raider, always a Raider.
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When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
