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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I recently saw The Last American Virgin, one of those early-'80s coming-of-age movies. And the actors, they look like kids you grew up with! Today's teen movies, I didn't know anybody who looked like that. The standards now are so unbelievably high.
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov -
It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.
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I thought I saw him for what he was-or what I thought he was. And he was talented, no doubt about that. But, he thought his talent was based on misery and that if he became happy it would just go. He believed that.
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I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
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It's very easy to lose track of the environment around you, to lose touch with the present.
