Bill Viola Quotes
Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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Funny is an attitude.
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Every time you work, you have to do it all over again, to rid yourself of this dross. I suppose for a person who is not an artist or not attempting art, it is not dross, because it is the common exchange of everyday life.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I wear tweed jackets and button-down shirts. I am a 1955 graduate of Harvard University who drives a 1968 Mercedes.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.
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Race differences show up early in life.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.
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People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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When decentralized blockchain protocols start displacing the centralized web services that dominate the current Internet, we'll start to see real internet-based sovereignty. The future Internet will be decentralized.
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I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.
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I feel there must be an enormous amount of really talented songwriters out there who can't sing.
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The American Dream I believe in is one that provides anyone willing to work hard enough with the opportunity to succeed.
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You travel across the country, you visit departments, you give talks, you talk about the work at your laboratory - what's going on, what the opportunities are there - you talk about your own research.
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If movies generically don't work, you immediately start to pick apart what ingredients contributed to that. If any movie is working, hopefully how it was made will be the least of your concern. You'll only want to have a god time.
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Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.
