David Viscott Quotes
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
Quotes to Explore
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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I intend not to do an item song ever. I find the term 'item songs' bizarre. I do not want to comment on its presence and its popularity, but I would rather avoid it.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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People always say 'humbling,' but I actually think it's quite inflating being nominated for an award. It's wonderful; it's a great feeling.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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Girls are going to school again in Swat Valley. And that is great.
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When I saw rappers in the '90s cameo in films - all of those '90s rappers - it seemed like whenever you chucked a rapper in a film, they could just act. It seemed like all rappers could act.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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I've worked with some great orchestras and amazing classical musicians, but I don't like the conceptualization of classical music as an elitist form of art.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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It's huge in the U.K., if someone's doing well, to put them down. That's what we do all the time. It's kind of like a cultural thing.
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I really enjoyed doing Albee's 'The Goat.' It's a powerful piece and a really exciting play to do.
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People always make that mistake when they talk about theatre - the notion of the 'theatrical' meaning something separate from life. If it doesn't relate to life, it doesn't relate to anything.
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The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'
