Matthew Barney Quotes
'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!
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Some books I've kept because the binding is beautiful - I'm unlikely ever to read my grandmother's copy of 'The Life of Lord Nelson.' I'm addicted to secondhand bookshops.
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Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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Something about 'Battlestar' that I didn't realize when I took the job was this whole bubble aspect of closing people in and seeing what they do.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.
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I think Isambard Kingdom Brunel would be a good chap to have supper with. Anyone who builds a railway and then builds a steamship when he gets to Bristol and can't go any further must be a good chap.
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I've always had way too much energy so I'm always looking for new things to do to channel that energy.
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I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue to draw.
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When I started writing I was a great rationalist and believed I was absolutely in control. But the older one gets, the more confused, and for an artist I think that is quite a good thing: you allow in more of your instinctual self; your dreams, fantasies and memories. It's richer, in a way.
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'Jackass: The Movie' is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body.
