David Tudor Quotes
I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
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You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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I guess I look strange a bit. Strange but confident. I'm not like a model or anything. I always compare this to wearing a hat. You can wear the strangest hat, but if you think it's cool, then you'll look cool.
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I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.
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I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're all working in an international industry.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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Brigands demand your money or your life; women require both.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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I do not have one theme for each season, I just try to make beautiful clothes all year round.
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Before my marriage, I was really wild, and I was very open about it. My wife knows about it. From the age of 19 to 30, I was this mad, wild person. I just wanted to have a good time, not get serious with anyone. I didn't allow relationships to happen, and I made it clear to whoever I was with.
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
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If you spend a week at a casino you will very easily see that people have a certain way of behaving in a casino.
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If you look at suburban education in New Jersey and New York, it's pretty strong, intact, doing a pretty good job. You cap taxes for those communities, can we reasonably predict it's going to be as strong 20 years from now?
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I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.
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The situation in Syria is quite different from Libya.
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I had gone away from Twitter because before people had been so mean to me. Talking about my lisp and my enormous forehead and all these things. I do have a lisp, I do have a forehead I know you could land a plane on, it's no mystery to me. I just didn't have the skin for it.
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We sometimes freeze the specimen with liquid nitrogen, which is extremely cold, you know. This is another technique we use now - but the specimens are not alive.
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My fondest memories are generally the day after Thanksgiving. I get the total decorating Christmas itch.
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I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
