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 started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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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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American audiences are great. They get what I am doing, but as my band will tell you, nowhere tops the Irish audience. They are just brilliant. They are very open, but the Americans and Spanish come a close second.
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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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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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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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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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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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I'm absolutely gonna win it, because I'm ruthless. I sit at the poker table and my job is to destroy people.
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A man got up after one of Huxley's 'sermons' and said 'they had never heard anything like that in Norwich before'. Never 'did Science seem so vast and mere creeds so little'.
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The opponents of this process have always tried to vilify westernization as a poor imitation.
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All of the material for 'The Fine Line' was created via improvisation with my partner, but not in front of an audience. We'd continue to refine it in front of an audience based on their responses until it was set and scripted.
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I travel around the world, and there are so many beautiful girls, but that's not going to make you a supermodel. You have to have something more than just a pretty face.
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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.
