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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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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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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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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Modi government has not flouted any rule or regulation to help anyone.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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You don't necessarily have to be religious to pray.
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If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
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Bathrooms are, on a square foot basis, the most expensive room in the house to renovate. If you want to test your heart's fitness, try shopping for simple bathroom faucets. Add in the cost of the required valves, mixers and trims, and you may need reviving when you see the tally!
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So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.
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Perhaps it is time to debate culture. The common story is that in 'real' African culture, before it was tainted by the West, gender roles were rigid and women were contentedly oppressed.
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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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Chuck Norris doesn't need to understand the work of James Joyce; James Joyce needs to understand the work of Chuck Norris.
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They are a very good football team over there. They are No. 1 in many categories and we were trying everything we could.
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When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.
