Salvador Dali Quotes
Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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When you first hear Mozart's music, your first impression is that it's very alive, but if you peel away the layers, you can hear sorrow and sadness behind it, and that's what I try to be: multi-layered.
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Of course it can be said of jails, too, that they try - by punishing the troublesome - to deter others. No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works. But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.
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I'm not averse to being a supporting character. I try to pick parts where I can add something.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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I have to think of moderation, which is not a word that's in my vocabulary. But I try.
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.
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I would love to coach. I'm not saying I'm qualified to do it in the N.B.A., but I would love to try.
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I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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I have been desperate to escape for so many years now, it is routine for me to try to escape.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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Every time, I try to make something different.
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I've been fortunate to be in films that are classic, that are going to be around.
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I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?
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Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
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I try to manage my time to conserve energy.
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I have the right to interpretation as a dramatist. I research. It's my responsibility to find the research. It's my responsibility to digest it and do the best that I can with it. But at a certain point that responsibility will become an interpretation.
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Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment.
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I've never read a book on shape. I've read books on gesture; I've read tons of books on color, surface, field, ground, representation, abstraction. But I've never read a book on what a shape is.
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Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums.
