Terrence Mitchell Riley (Terry Riley) Quotes
We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
Terrence Mitchell Riley
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
Zeljko Ivanek
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
Pablo Picasso
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
Val Kilmer
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
Sam Kean
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I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.
Malorie Blackman
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As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.
Gaby Hoffmann
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We inculcate young people with the message that if they don't succeed, it is merely of their own doing. They should have worked harder, we say. They should have made better decisions. This message is especially present in communities of color.
Clint Smith
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All I can do is knuckle down, write something really good, and hope someone responds to it.
Stephnie Weir
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I like superhero films, and I love Star Wars movies, but I want to make sure there's a wide diaspora of films getting made.
Christopher Miller
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Genius is its own reward; for the best that one is, one must necessarily be for oneself. . . . Further, genius consists in the working of the free intellect., and as a consequence the productions of genius serve no useful purpose. The work of genius may be music, philosophy, painting, or poetry; it is nothing for use or profit. To be useless and unprofitable is one of the characteristics of genius; it is their patent of nobility.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
Erik Larson
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We are either going to dissolve as a human race or we are going to break through into a new understanding of what it is to be a human being.
Terrence Mitchell Riley
