Fred Tomaselli Quotes
I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
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I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.
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There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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I think something that's very relevant in real life and that they don't portray enough on TV is that when you think 'Christian,' you think 'goody two shoes' - they have to look a certain way and do certain things - and it's just not true.
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I think that cinema and the arts are central in our lives because we grow up and learn about the world through our exposure to stories. Parents use them as a tool to teach their children fundamental truths and values, much as adults can view them to gain exposure to cultures and individuals that they'd never be able to view in their own lives.
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I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.
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The whole thing with VR is that it doesn't matter, local versus networked gaming. The goal in virtual reality isn't to have people sit in the same room with headsets on.
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One golden rule is to accept the interpretation honestly put on the pledge by the party administering it.
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Monotony is poverty, whether in speech or in life.
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There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.
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Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.
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I am personally not against keeping animals at zoos, as they serve a huge educational purpose, but treating them well and with respect seems the least we could do, and with 'we' I mean not just zoo staff, but most certainly also the public.
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In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school.
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Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
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I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.
