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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The contributions of African Americans, Native Americans, and immigrants throughout our nation's history are undeniable, but the tendency to overlook their gallant efforts is pervasive and persistent.
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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 get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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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 am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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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 am primarily, absolutely a Caribbean writer.
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Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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I really enjoy drawing, and I enjoy design, fashion design especially. If acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'd probably go into design.
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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.
