Uta Barth Quotes
Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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In theory, taxes should be like shopping. What I buy is government services. What I pay are my taxes.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I dream about doing a film about once a week.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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My literary success meant nothing to me.
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There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.
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I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.
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The biggest challenge for me has been in coping with my perfectionism. I have a stiflingly hard time moving forward in a project if it's not 'just right' all along the way. The trap I so easily fall into is rewriting and rewriting the same scenes over and over to make them perfect, instead of continuing on into the wild unknown of the story.
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I love to perform live.
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I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
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I think it's important to stay curious and see and experience as much as you can, whether it's art, performance, music, travel, or just hanging out and people-watching.
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I'm not one to probe my limitations.
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It means a lot to everyone around me that I look good, and I don't think it should have to. I just think I should look the way I do.
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I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.
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Everything is pointing to one's own activity of looking, to an awareness and sort of hyper-consciousness of visual perception. The only way I know how to invite this experience is by removing the other things (i.e., subject matter) for you to think about.
