Jerry Saltz Quotes
Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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Usually, if you read a script by somebody else and there's a dense page of stage directions, people just skip through it or speed read it.
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Memorising my lines is actually something I do fairly well. I look at it a few times and it is pretty much there. When your shooting on TV, they do it in such a way that it is pretty easy.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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It hurts every day when you practice hard, but when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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Even more important maybe, or equally more important at least, is they don't have to scrap for a living.
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In taking leave of this subject for the present I wish to renew the expression of my conviction that the existence of African slavery in Cuba is a principal cause of the lamentable condition of the island. I do not doubt that Congress shares with me the hope that it will soon be made to disappear, and that peace and prosperity may follow its abolition.
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We may take it to be the accepted idea that the Mosaic books were not handed down to us for our instruction in scientific knowledge, and that it is our duty to ground our scientific beliefs upon observation and inference, unmixed with considerations of a different order.
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That kid who lives in the projects, he has a self-esteem problem - everybody looks down on him. He may be a good kid, but other parents don't want their kids to be with them because percentages say they could be bad. I went through a lot of that.
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The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.
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Batty as it sounds, subject and style may choose artists, through some unfathomable cosmic means. How else to explain that even artists who enjoy what they do can be perplexed or even horrified that they're doing it?
