Tilda Swinton Quotes
This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe uncomfortable and complicated. Just complicated and human, no more and no less.
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Obviously, as you get a little older, you are not going to be quite as quick or quite as strong, and so I might be regarded by some as the underdog... There is actually a statue of Big Ben and I in Perth, Ont., and I was on a Canadian stamp once, and normally you have to be dead to do either of those things, and, well, here I am, still going.
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Today, not to take away from any of the present artists, but music has gotten a little shallow, in my opinion. Everybody's talking about the same thing: sex, money, clothes, cheating... I want to open up not necessarily better conversations, but, in my opinion, more important ones, and touch on things that are actually going on.
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I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick.
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Conscience is God present in man.
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There is an obvious connection, on the declining Roman empire's bread and circuses model, between political enthusiasm for public spectacles and the periods when we are least able to pay for them.
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I listen to music all the time, and I just choose things I like, or things that I've not used before. Sometimes I work with music that's very difficult - that I don't even particularly like, per se, but that is really complex or interesting.
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During my second draft pass on my last book I made 20,000 words happen in a week, which is practically supernatural for me, and it would never have been possible without three nights in a hotel in my own city.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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I'm a cynic about corporate democracy and boards.
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I need to be very isolated to write, and unfortunately isolation is often quite difficult to find. My ideal writing environment would be a country house hotel in the middle of nowhere, with full room service.
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I remember when 'The Right Stuff' opened in Hollywood. I got dressed that morning and drove my car down to the theatre that it was playing on, thinking that there would be mobs of people outside. When I looked, there was nobody there.
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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
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Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
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I used to refer to my photos as free radicals - and maybe that has to do with this idea of navigating history. I think of the works as having this dormant illness that can really latch on to different histories. So they can exist in a world pretending to be neatly encapsulated, already framed, and fixed. But actually they are these parasites dependent on the failure of modernist history and on multiplicity.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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News writes history from the perspective of politicians. Film writes history from the perspective of the people.
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No matter what I do, all people talk about is production design, whether it's not good enough or it is good enough. And I'm thinking: This is because my content makes people uncomfortable. It's a way for people to not talk about the content.
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This film [Teknolust] in particular, showing the way in which having a sexual dialogue with someone can be something developing and changeable and maybe uncomfortable and complicated. Just complicated and human, no more and no less.
