George Lois Quotes
When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you have been to a museum this year?' Nobody raises their hand and I go into a tirade. If you want to do something sharp and innovative, you have to know what went on before.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.
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The Islamic method of waging war is not to kill innocent civilians, but it was Christians in World War II who bombed innocent civilians in Dresden and dropped the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima, neither of which were military targets.
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I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.
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Getting your writing criticized can be a lot like getting skinned, and you respond to it just as enthusiastically.
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When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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Music is about the performance.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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I love 'The Wire;' that's my favorite show, so I'll watch that.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.
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Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfectly. It is their war, and you are to help them, not to win it for them.
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What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
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For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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It's scary but as an actress it is my job to be vulnerable, so I try to just embrace it and focus on the things I can control.
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What did school matter compared to a sister?
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In a sense, the god we trust politically is a slightly different god than the one we bring into the fray when we enter a rock concert. One of the things I can say with absolute conviction is that I worship that god.
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When I teach classes at the School of Visual Arts,, I'll ask the students, 'How many of you have been to a museum this year?' Nobody raises their hand and I go into a tirade. If you want to do something sharp and innovative, you have to know what went on before.
