Gabe Polsky Quotes
Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.
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My style is very inspired by both my parents, so we all have the same taste.
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The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt. The French Revolution is still our model today: history is violent change, and this change goes by the name of progress. I do not know whether these notions really apply to art.
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I think that ballet is very good for the body. It's very similar to yoga, because you have to hold a position.
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The next step in my life is hopefully meeting a nice guy and getting married.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
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Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
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Crossword puzzles, Sudoku... I'm good at all those things. It's not daily, but I'll do stuff on the airplane. I love playing chess. It's my favorite game.
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If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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I love Costas. He's knows too much, but he's a good guy.
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I'm a lobbyist and had a career lobbying. The guy who gets elected or the lady who gets elected president of the United States will immediately be lobbying. They would be advocating to the Congress, they'll be lobbying our allies and our adversaries overseas. They'll be asking the business community and labor unions.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate - not to the artist, but to the public, blinding them to all but harming the artist not at all.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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I think art always comments on the time and place it was created.
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What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind.
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
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Chess as a sport requires a lot of mental stamina, and this is what that makes it different from a physical sport. Chess players have a unique ability of taking in a lot of information and remembering relevant bits. So, memory and mental stamina are the key attributes.
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I think the media is a fear-mongering operation. They love to rile their viewership up or to scare them.
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Anatoli Tarasov, the guy that created the Soviet style of play, was a visionary. He was a creative thinker. He studied ballet and chess and art and read a lot.
