Michelle Grabner Quotes
Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
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I am, and remain, passionate about news.
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I bring a copy of 'Dracula' with me wherever I go, the book. It's my favorite book in the world, it's absolutely incredible. My great-great grandfather was the guy who printed the first edition, so he's the first person to ever put 'Dracula' on the written page.
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I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.
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But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.
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I'm a huge fan of good, procedural-type shows on television... there are a lot of roles for women. But there aren't a lot of great network television roles for girls that will let you start a character in one place and finish up with her in a totally different one.
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Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.
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The nature of the All moved to make the universe.
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New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.
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It's fun once in a while to do a serious part but I really enjoy doing comedy because I love to laugh.
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My favorite way to blow off steam is to sing obnoxiously loud in the shower.
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There's a thing about film composing and conducting in my family.
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I have an old brain but a terrific memory.
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My whole life, I've loved '80s synth and goth rock like The Sisters of Mercy and Depeche Mode.
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The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence.
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Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life's possibilities.
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There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
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Designing aircraft and racing cars is an extremely exciting thing.
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If you are not breaking rules and you are not taking risks, you are not going to end up with movies where there is discovery... and, to me, that is the magic of going into the cinema.
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Noble men in the quiet of morning hear Indians singing the continent's violent requiem.
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I think being the girl of such a huge father figure, you want to be that tomboy... because you are so close to your dad.
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Artists who take on curatorial activities have the advantage of negating the professional hurdles and limitations comprising institutions.
