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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Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.
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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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I always do drama. It's just that some people laugh at it and some people cry.
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I will never, most likely, be good at the piano, but thanks to it, I will never forget the humbling, infuriating, necessary slowness of progress in any artistic endeavor.
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I went from never doing interviews to doing 10 in one day and standing in front of 60,000 fans. Now people look up to me, and I'm seeing little girls wearing my jersey.
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Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
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I just knew at an early time in my life how important privacy was.
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I want to see better quality of comedy on TV.
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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.
