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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I know our culture will sometimes understand a love for Jesus as weakness. There is this lie floating around that says I am supposed to be able to do life alone, without any help, without stopping to worship something bigger than myself. But I actually believe there is something bigger than me, and I need for there to be something bigger than me. I need someone to put awe inside me; I need to come second to someone who has everything figured out.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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All the people with whom I was very close at one point in my life - Stockhausen, Berio, Ligeti, Nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann - they are all gone.
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Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
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The question of truth is forever in the air, and people look for it with particular fervor in art.
