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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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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Just as little as terror - not even the terror of war - can save the world, just as little can hate ever be anything uplifting. Love is the only firm ground for peace - not only love for one's fellowmen, but first of all, love of one's country.
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'It is so easy a thing to give-only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive.'
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Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.
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Some things need to be broken to become stronger.
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I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.
