Duane Michals Quotes

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

Duane Michals

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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.

  

  Pat Riley
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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!

  

  Felicity Kendal
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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.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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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.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
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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.

  

  Ice Cube
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• Midi is my hobby.

  

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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.

  

  Barry Mann
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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.

  

  Larry Hogan
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• Let someone else be the world's greatest actress. I'll be the world's greatest baseball fan.

  

  Laraine Day
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• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  

  Iris Chang
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• When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.

  

  Daniel Clowes
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• The successful business executive can handle challenges and solve problems at a remarkable clip.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• Pray to Christ for me that the animals will be the means of making me a sacrificial victim for God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
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• I've never taken a scalpel to a dead body.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
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• Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.

  

  Octavio Paz
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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.

  

  Laura Dern
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• Trying to make a feature film yourself with no money is the best film school you can do.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
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• For me, doing good work is important.

  

  Anushka Shetty
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• When I heard 'Dookie' by Green Day for the first time, it unlocked something in me, like, it's totally okay that I'm a little bit weird because these guys are a little bit weird. It made me want to pick up an instrument and do that.

  

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• There are an awful lot of people out there that don't want to see Boston go away, and I'm one of them.

  

  Tom Scholz Boston
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• Money and success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

  

  Will Smith
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• There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.

  

  James Franco
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• The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.

  

  Duane Michals
  • People
  • Art
  • Truth