Udo Kier Quotes
When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I went to India and met some people who had been involved in this guerrilla business, middle-class people who were rather vain and foolish. There was no revolutionary grandeur to it. Nothing.
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What we won't become is a 'Democratic Party lite!' We are a party that wants smaller government and lower taxes. Obama and the Democrats do not. We are a party that wants to encourage small business. We are a party that has a large constituent group that believes in a social agenda and we will not abandon them.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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Once you start a business, you have to grow it and grow with it - starting a business is not just for Christmas.
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Art is always an exaggeration in some sense; in color, in form, even in theme, etc... but it has always been this way. It is the same with the nature of some works by Giotto or Massacio, or the color of life as expressed by Van Gogh.
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I remember how much fun it was to pick out my lunchbox. My all-time favorite lunch box was from the movie 'Annie.' Also, I loved picking out school supplies! Trapper Keepers were my favorite.
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Getting into the residential investment business entails lots of renovation work.
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My family always encouraged my drawing ability. Kids in school who teased me about my reading would get out of their seats and stand behind my desk as I worked and go, 'Wow, you can really draw.' Later, I earned a degree in Fine Art and got a Ph.D. in Art History.
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I think Steve Jobs is a historic figure. He's not only a historic figure in business, but really in America.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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They're not poodles, they're art.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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I'm not saying my mother didn't like me, but she kept looking for loopholes in my birth certificate.
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When you start in movie business... It is a business, actually. Nothing to do with art. Picasso is art, and Giacometti, but film acting is no art. Just the luck of being discovered, maybe.
