Bill Viola Quotes
You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.
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I was not getting work, even after auditioning for films. So I started working in a studio as a photographer; I assisted a cinematographer for two ads. I was thinking that I will get into photography or cinematography or assist someone. But then the 'Dangal' offer came, and I was busy with the auditions.
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As a mom, you do what you have to do without even thinking about it.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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One of the problems with posing a 'bold new plan' is that you can't just extrapolate from previous plans.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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The goal is to divide my time between stage and film.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
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The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.
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I thought there had to be something I could do because it seemed crazy that, in addition to the psychological tragedy each woman has to face, came also all the rest.
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My feeling is that it's important that you show kids reality.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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The media want the stories and the television companies want the stories and the papers want the story and means that it is everyday.
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You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.
