Bridget Riley Quotes
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The world is always in movement.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to be fanatically precise and well-organized. On the other, they must be able to establish rapport with panicky callers.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.
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Some of the best songs that artists perform year after year are ones they hated.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
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I try to keep away from being big-headed. That's what causes people to lose the acting thing. They start being commercial, and then they stink for the rest of their lives.
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I think everyone knows the news has become ridiculous. It's entertainment driven.
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Selling music doesn't make that much money.
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I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.
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We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets.
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I work through the actors, and the more successful I am, the less my work is apparent.
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I think climbing mountains or buildings or whatever has been a really good metaphor for finishing my work. Because no matter how tired you get, no matter how you feel like you can't possibly do this, somehow you do.
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I work with nature, although in completely new terms.
