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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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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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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No man was ever great by imitation.
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I don't know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public; they forget that invisibility is a superpower.
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The soldier who gropes for glory must submit himself to discipline. Subordination gives strength and security to an army. He that will not submit to it when corrected and improved by the experience of ages does not deserve the proud appellation of a soldier.
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If you have not the experience, ask. There is no shame in asking, but do not pretend you know when you don't.
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The thing that helped me come to terms with performing was an anxiety, a desperation for acceptance. There was never enough positive motivation in my life.
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Predominantly, crimes and horrible, horrible, horrible judgment don't have to do with sociopaths. It has to do with people who are not capable of maintaining or managing their frailties.
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And people say it all the time: 'You're a celebrity.' No, I'm an actor. I'm a producer. I'm a director. I'm a toad. I'm roadkill. I'm anything but a celebrity.
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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.
