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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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.
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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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My mother tries to explain that I need support and that I'm just going through a period of adjustment. "Like puberty," she says.
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I definitely want to have kids. I've grown up around lots of people who were having kids when I knew them, because a lot of them were a lot older than me. And I saw the wonderful change in them.
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
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But with lots of good ideas, implementation is the key, and so we need to keep our eye on the ball as we go forward and make sure that people honor their pledges in terms of financial commitments, and that we actually use this money so that it makes a real difference.
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The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
