Odd Nerdrum Quotes
The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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I think, for me, Julian Schnabel set a great precedent in being able to cross over so successfully. I feel like his artwork is kind of big, grand, and bombastic, yet the films that he makes are very beautifully sensitive, and I just feel that his filmmaking sensibility is very different from his artwork.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I think I need security.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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You just have to take control of your own performance.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Husbands and wives, first be faithful to each other. Second, keep the romance going all of your life by courting each other every day.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I feel limited in some ways because I have such young fans. But I'm okay with that; I do everything I want to do.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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I used to watch a lot of American and British television as a child, which helped teach me the language and accents; it was partly that which landed me the part of Roxy in a London production of 'Chicago' when I was 25.
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My grandmother was the daughter of pioneers, as was my grandfather, and they were farmers. And they worked the land, and there is a grounded value system that becomes inherent in knowing what's real and what's powerful. And understanding the material nature of not only man, but beasts and profit and all of those things that you fight for.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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The world somehow is always the same. The only thing that can improve is the individual life. One can live a good life. One can give life a meaning. Either by drinking oneself to death or by painting oneself to death or by loving oneself to death.
