Bill Viola Quotes
There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.
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Work is the thing that happens around the game time.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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Everybody has to know for themselves what they're capable of.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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The first song I did was over a Chief Keef beat – 'Understand Me.' I did that in, like, 2011 or 2012, I think.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I love to get home and hang out with my family. My brothers and I love spending time at the beach. I enjoy doing all kinds of surf sports and keeping healthy.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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Life is just so much fun and so filled with humor.
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Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.
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It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.
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I think there needs some attention to be paid to what sport is going to represent to young people: should it be viewed in the competitive, team-oriented sense that it is now, or does it become a vehicle for betting, which may, in effect, change the atmosphere in the stadiums and the arenas?
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I think my friends would say I'm pretty goal-focused but whimsical.
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Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.
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Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
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If you don't work near a water cooler and hanker for the company of fellow natural history enthusiasts, 'The Blue Planet II Podcast' has Emily Knight and Becky Ripley enthusing infectiously about and delving deeper into the most recent episode.
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There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.
