Jerry Saltz Quotes
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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When you look at the results that Newt Gingrich got when he was speaker, he got results for the American people.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon.
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The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune, and willing avoids the sight of distress.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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I'm a full-time mom right now and a part-time actress.
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Losing is no fun no matter who you lose to.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.
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It was just two energies between two people, you can't prescribe that.
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Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.
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Brazil is on my side.
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
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Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.
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Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.
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These will vary in every human being; but knowledge is the same for every mind, and every mind may and ought to be trained to receive it.
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The clearer you are about the consequences of your actions and the more intensely you desire to enjoy the consequences that your behaviors may lead to, the more motivated you will be.
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Among living artists, George Condo may be the most embraced by the powers that be.
