Joel Siegel Quotes
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One of the great responsibilities we have as a society is to educate ourselves, along with the next generation, about which substances are worth ingesting, and for what purpose, and which are not.
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I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of the links, Iraq was one of the countries that did not lower its flags in mourning on 9/11.
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Some genres I'm not a huge fan of but there are always exceptions that break the rules. There are always a few people doing it in a way weird enough to grab my attention.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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The only show my mother could afford to take me to when I was growing up was 'Cats', for my birthday.
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I love fashion. I always have. When I was a kid, I was in almost full-on costumes when I went to school, and I've retained a bit of that in my adulthood.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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Acting is a form of confusion.
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Actually, I take it as a compliment. Diva is a derivative of divine. That's quite a title to carry around.
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Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real.
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In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.
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When people say that I may not speak, they forget that I may well think. I may think what I want, like everyone else. I shall just refrain from saying everything I think. That might be something many people should do once in a while.
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There is no doubt One.Tel was a terrible investment and something that I regret greatly.
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Somehow, the whole idea of me writing art reviews was just too much of a complicated thought, but I liked art, and later on I just realized that it would be perhaps a pleasure, and so I decided to do it for 'Art in America' - a lot.
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My first production job after M.I.A. was actually the xx, but they didn't like what I did, and at the end of the day, we used their demos.
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I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.
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The idea of telling a story in reverse destabilises your ordinary moral reactions. That's one of the points of art - to challenge your preconceptions.
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But I dare not think too far into the future on the risk that I'll miss the present.
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The studio should not have released this film.
