Bill Viola Quotes
Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I like to think I'm quite brave. I stand up for myself.
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Through the years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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It's in literature that true life can be found. It's under the mask of fiction that you can tell the truth.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Winning, you can overlook so many things.
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I can laugh and cry at the drop of a freakin' hat - all at the same time.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I come from a background of hiding everything behind a computer.
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What you see is what you get.
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Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genuinely loves you, grab that person and hold on to that person, and nothing else matters.
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It's a new situation. Of course, you have always the goal for years to go there and to reach the top, but then if you are there, you actually don't know what to expect.
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We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility.
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Niggers was the ones with the rope, hanging off trees; Niggas are the ones with gold ropes, hanging out at clubs.
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
