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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There were no dissidents then in the USSR because they were all killed.
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A lot of people don't know that Dad was quite a scientist, and he was so clever.
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I think I made $55 a week, and it was bliss... I was doing theater. It was all I ever wanted to do. It was so much fun, and you got paid for it, and you met people, and it's the greatest education in the world. And in my little Greenbrier station wagon, I felt very much like a troubadour.
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To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die.
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I'm not sure about this Live 8 thing. Correct me if I am wrong, but are they hoping that one of these guys from the G8 is on a quick 15-minute break at Gleneagles and sees Annie Lennox singing "Sweet Dreams" and thinks: "F... me, she might have a point there, you know." It's not going to f... happen, is it? Keane doing "Somewhere Only We Know" and some Japanese businessman going: "Aw, look at him...we should really f... drop that debt, you know." It's not going to happen, is it?
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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.
