Rafael Vinoly Quotes
In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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You can't just let nature run wild.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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The thing that I took away as an early fan from Bob Dylan was the storytelling aspects. He can tell some wicked stories.
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Albert Grossman called my office and spoke with my partner Richard Leacock and asked if we'd be interested in making a film with his client, Bob Dylan.
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It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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I'd long wanted to write about that moment when a woman steps off the career track to have her first child. For me, that was a scary time.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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I went to law school with a plan of going back home and practicing law to support my farming, and Dad said, 'There's just not room here for us.' So I took off to practice law and got involved in some politics, and the rest just moved on forward.
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In 'Haraamkhor,' I have explored a few things which I wouldn't have been able to do in bigger films. The process of shooting this film was so organic that it enhanced me as an actor and an artiste.
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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I take no pride in having been the first public personality to come out publicly against Simpson. It just happened that way.
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Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read. And it is an interesting, complicated book, but it's not something that somebody who has never read a book before should be given as an example of why you'll really love to read, necessarily.
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You've got to be yourself, and if you're not, you're a phony. It comes shining through if you're not careful.
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A lot of songs you write are just for exercise - just pencil sharpeners.
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In the theater, everything is ephemeral. Everything is almost weightless and without a very clear definition of how you made it.
