Hasan M. Elahi Quotes
I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'
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Music is art, and once you become an artist, you need to learn how to accept criticism.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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I think every woman in their life wants to give a good face smack.
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There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided that kids could relate more to someone their own age than an adult. So suddenly all these previously grownup comics were lousy with sidekicks: Aquagirl, Aqualad, Robin, Kid Flash, Speedy, Stripesy... the list goes on.
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I went to public school my whole life. It was a performing arts school, so I can't say if it was a typical experience or not, because it's all I know.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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My generation were all careerists.
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My career has been over since 1990.
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It may come as a surprise, but Frou Frou was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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That's the thing about great artists: They find the thing that's most obvious to themselves, what's most conscious and natural, and they put it out there and the audience comes.
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I'm an artist. And usually when I tell people I'm an artist, they just look at me and say, 'Do you paint?' or 'What kind of medium do you work in?'
