Oskar Kokoschka Quotes
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It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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I'm a slow starter.
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Music has always been my passion for as long as I can remember.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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The hip hop industry is most likely owned by gays. I happen to think there's a gay mafia in hip hop. Not rappers - the editorial presidents of magazines, the PDs at radio stations, the people who give you awards at award shows.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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Applause is the most powerful thing... people talk about the sound of it, but what I hear is glee.
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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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It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death.
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Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
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I love connected culture.
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He that complies against his will is of his own opinion still.
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My fascination is not for cinema; it's for human nature and human beings because I find it quite difficult being one at times.
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I play well with everybody.
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I'm not a tech-savvy parent. I communicate with my children via the old-media format called yelling.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'
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Preparation is a mentality... With wrestling being my background, I've always learned to overwork, overwork. Work, work, work, work. It's not always the talented that wins, but it's the one who puts in the most preparation and thought into things.
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There are not so many songs written about love today like there were in the past. It's all changed, but that's why my songs still last as big favorites today.
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I cannot say why I wanted to paint. The only answer is in the pictures themselves.
