Roberta Smith Quotes
A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
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I like fiction and the kind of history that gives the grace and flavor of fiction to the past. No bloviation on current events, please. I can write that junk myself.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.
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The march of the human mind is slow.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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I've done a lot of practical anthropology, living in villages with people and realizing how difficult it is to get out of poverty. When in poverty, people use their skill to avoid hunger. They can't use it for progress.
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I'm a big collector of vinyl - I have a record room in my house - and I've always had a huge soundtrack album collection. So what I do, as I'm writing a movie, is go through all those songs, trying to find good songs for fights, or good pieces of music to layer into the film.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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We could hang around for ten years and nobody would care enough to identify us. Therein lies the horror.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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I just realized the best way to live your life is to just be you, as cliche as it sounds. I grew up trying to please everyone.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.
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I'm not into the gym. I prefer dancing or tennis.
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I'm not ashamed of it, but people would think I'm ashamed of Bieber. I got Bieber on my iPod.
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Apartheid either is or is not. And it must not be.
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I am an atheist and do not know the meaning of the 'religious pain' that is felt by believers of every cast when what they believe in is insulted.
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What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge.
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I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
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PROMISE YOURSELF To make all your friends feel that there is something in them.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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Humility is the worst form of conceit.
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A certain rough-around-the-edges improvisational looseness - a sense of something coming together before your eyes, or not quite - may be one of the things that distinguishes performance art from theater.
