Duane Michals Quotes
The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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I was talking to Marylanders... What we were hearing, everywhere, was an overwhelming sense of frustration. People felt a huge disconnect between Annapolis and the rest of Maryland.
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Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.
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They probably do have an Asian Barbie.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.
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Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.
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I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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I was raised in the '70s, and I've worked with people I love, and I've been on sets with my parents, with people who run a set and require of actors a sense of liberty and freedom and exploration and failure into brave achievement.
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Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.
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If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a score showing who's a good connector. That'd be useful, right?
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Big business is basic to the very life of this country; and yet many -perhaps most - Americans have a deep-seated fear and an emotional repugnance to it. Here is monumental contradiction.
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Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.
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He had never been lonely in his life before he met her, having at the worst found good company in himself; but now he longed for a companion, and out of all the many millions of the earth's inhabitants there was only one that he wanted.
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The truth is, I love history and studied it in college, with a particular focus on early American history. My love is so deep, in fact, I went to school at The College of William & Mary in Colonial Williamsburg.
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The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.