Naum Gabo Quotes
The image my work invokes is the image of good – not evil; the image of order – not chaos; the image of life – not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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Somebody was asking me the other day - President Bush is now talking about freedom for the Arab world. I say, well, that's great. I was talking about that fifty years ago.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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We are expected to believe that anyone who objects to the Department of Homeland Security or the USA Patriot Act is a terrorist, and that the only way to preserve our freedom is to hand it over to the government for safekeeping.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.
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This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
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I'm a strong believer in bipartisanship.
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But better die than live mechanically a life that is a repetition of repetitions.
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Phone networks can capture life on our planet.
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I don't outline. I sit down to write, and I take the ride. If something starts to not feel right, I go back to the last place that felt like jazz to me.
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I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.
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Kids are meant to believe that their stepping stone to massive money is 'The X Factor.' Luck is great, but most of life is hard work. We do not celebrate people who have made success out of serious hard work.
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We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.
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In some ways. I always feel between worlds, between cultures, and I think that's not necessarily a bad place for a writer to be. Writers are kind of on the fringe anyway, observing, writing things down. I'm still mostly American, but it's a nice tension.
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Computers let people avoid people, going out to explore. It's so different to just open a website instead of looking at a Picasso in a museum in Paris.
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We see the world through the lens of all our experiences; that is a fundamental part of the human condition.
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The image my work invokes is the image of good – not evil; the image of order – not chaos; the image of life – not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.
