Barry Blitt Quotes
I like to make myself laugh. When I'm just sitting with a sketchbook and trying to make myself laugh or trying to come up with ideas, I try not to worry about aim right away. I'm just sort of shooting in all directions.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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I believe it's easier to be an actor. Somehow, interviewing seems to be intrusive on people's lives.
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After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
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The Republican Party is the Grand Old Party. It's made enormous contributions to the success of our country. And it is a party that has embraced its leadership role when it has had the majority or the White House.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
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It's not for me or another European to speak about domestic political choices or decisions in the U.S.
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They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.
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It's definitely a necessity to make split-second decisions when you're doing gymnastics because things don't always go perfect.
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Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies to the rest of the world.
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The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
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There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.
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'Egalitarians' who complain about inequality view the wealth of the wealthiest as bad in itself: it disfigures society. They would enact a wealth tax to extirpate the offending wealth.
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It's a Japanese way of thinking, that I give value for my merchandise. So I don't want to sell unnecessarily expensive dresses and make just 10 or 20 and then feel satisfied. I want to design for real women who can afford my dresses.
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If you give a person a fish, they'll fish for a day. But if you train a person to fish, they'll fish for a lifetime.
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When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.
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I used to do a lot of repertory theater. You're playing different roles all the time, and I love that.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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Sometimes I feel like if I'm not getting people to boo me, then I'm not doing my job right.
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Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad.
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I've always done indie films, but things started picking up more for, for a lack of a better word, more professional things.
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I like to make myself laugh. When I'm just sitting with a sketchbook and trying to make myself laugh or trying to come up with ideas, I try not to worry about aim right away. I'm just sort of shooting in all directions.
