Doug Aitken Quotes
It's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.
Quotes to Explore
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I was elected on April 13 and sworn in two days later, so I had no orientation. I had to figure things out as I went along.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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I have visited people whose health has been endangered by tar sands oil. I have watched neighbors struggle to recover from Superstorm Sandy. I have seen solar panels and wind turbines become an increasingly familiar part of the landscape.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.
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When you’re only doing it for one play and you’re just not where you’re supposed to be, and freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose, boy are you going to clean somebody’s clock for that one play.
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Once an artist makes his personal life public, he can't close that door.
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I've always been a fan first and foremost - obsessing over bands and seeking out bands, and spending hours and hours listening. When I played music, the scope of my fandom became more myopic; I was focusing on the bands we were touring with, or the bands on the label. And you're always positing yourself in relation to other bands. Since I haven't been playing, I feel a little less cynical. I'm able to seek out music and approach it strictly as a fan.
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It's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.
