Jeffrey Deitch Quotes
Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.
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In terms of achievement, the pride is very important to me. It keeps me going every day. The money is always second to me.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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I am not an American; I am the American.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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If you want to lead, you better love people. Even if you don't like them, you have to love them enough to tell them the truth.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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I did one touring show with Horatio Sanz. We went to, I think it was Iowa State University, and we were in this field house, so people were sitting on the floor. It started out with 2,500 people in there. We delivered the most mediocre improv, and it went from a crowd of 2,500 to 250 people in the course of 45 minutes. It was grim.
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I was chosen for 'Wolverine' because there weren't any other Japanese actresses available who could speak English. With 'Batman v Superman' and 'Hannibal,' I got the roles as a result of previous work I'd done, not just because of my nationality.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.
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I guess every character has a little bit of the actor - I guess for every character you play, the actor has to allow a little bit of their own character to show through.
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Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence; Madison wrote not only the United States Constitution, or at least most of it, but also the most searching commentary on it that has ever appeared. Each of them served as president of the United States for eight years. What they had to say to each other has to command attention.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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I learned early in my career to not let myself get in the way of humor but, instead, find what is great in a talented person.
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The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.
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Liberals consider people to be nuisances.
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We still have a long way to go—or as I have written so many times, and said at the end of hundreds of speeches: We are just at the beginning. A glorious future!
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You never know who is walking around with a fever who took some Tylenol to make themselves feel better.
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Arm the obdured breast with stubborn patience as with triple steel.
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The whole point of art, as far as I’m concerned, is that art doesn’t make any difference. And that’s why it’s important. Take film: you can have quite extreme emotional experiences watching a movie, but they stop as soon as you walk out of the cinema. You can see people being hurt, but even though you feel those things strongly, you know they’re not real.
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Disney is our contemporary landscape. The best art will reflect that and challenge you. Disney comforts you, whereas the best art shakes up your comfort level and perception.
