Abraham Kaplan Quotes
The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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What I do, basically, is look at things from different angles. That is what I do on stage comedically, and that is what I do in art. I was always fascinated by the structure of things, why things work this way and not that way. So I like to see how things behave if you change the point of view.
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I don't want to sound too Oprah-ish or anything like that, but I really believe that if you have the power to imagine particular things, you have the ability to transform them.
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When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I like that feeling of letting loose, of not planning every step. The best performances are the ones that you just let happen.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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The Jews were gassed. Armenians were killed in every conceivable way... So the Holocaust doesn't interest me, see? They've had a lot of publicity, but they didn't suffer as much.
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That's absolutely one of my main goals, to have a number one on Billboard. That's a big thing for me. That means people are buying and listening to your music.
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I haven't received any pressure to be anything other than myself, and for that, I am so grateful.
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We are all multidimensional and kind of have dual personalities. Everyone puts on different roles depending on what circumstances they're in without even noticing that they do that.
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I always look for interesting, complex characters. You know, interesting, well-written material.
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
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When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!'
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A modern theory of knowledge which takes account of the relational as distinct from the merely relative character of all historical knowledge must start with the assumption that there are spheres of thought in which it is impossible to conceive of absolute truth existing independently of the values and position of the subject and unrelated to the social context.
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I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.
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I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque and the fantastic.
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The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.
