Tim Fish Quotes
I get approached to do a lot of commissioned art. Sometimes I do it, but I usually don't, given the day job and everything I've sort of got going on. I'm really passionate about it; there's not that much time left over for the other commissioned projects.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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I've been married to the same man - even after the separation - longer than most people in this business. I'm sick to death of people mentioning it.
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It's like nothing's really happening. Our culture is almost dead.
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
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Performance art can involve the audience with taste, smell and sounds not available with electronic media and not practical with conventional theater. This is due to the usually small audience.
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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I had a weirdly awesome high-school experience.
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Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.
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In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
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The mollusk's motto would be: one must live to build one's house, and not build one's house to live in.
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You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.
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To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects on you in terms of do you like it or don't you like it. Some people run away from it, some people embrace it; I found a good middle ground.
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Over 120 Aboriginal communities run their own health services - some have been doing so for 30 years. They struggle with difficult medical problems. They also try to deal with counselling, stolen generations issues, family relationships, violence, suicide prevention.
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I get approached to do a lot of commissioned art. Sometimes I do it, but I usually don't, given the day job and everything I've sort of got going on. I'm really passionate about it; there's not that much time left over for the other commissioned projects.
