M. C. Escher Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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I would love to do a film with a lot of humor in it: a comedy with pain instead of a painful film with some comedy.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.
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I'm really interested in how conflicts arise and how they reach points of no return. I'm no pacifist. Sometimes force is necessary. But war is a choice.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I'm not a good writer. It takes me a long time to get there. I write and then rewrite and revise and do it over and over until I'm satisfied.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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In 1975 Australia was producing things like Picnic at Hanging Rock, in other words films that I would consider still some of the finest products to come out of Australia. I think that our quality now is less than it was then.
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It was a great feeling, man. My first time being here, people embracing me the way they were. It's something I'm going to cherish ... It kind of made me more nervous, just wanting to give them a good show.
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We completely support Commissioner Silver's decision today regarding Clippers owner Donald Sterling, and praise him for his prompt investigation and action.
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I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.
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I'm happy to work. I know things have changed recently, but I tend to prefer film. I don't know what it is.
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My work is a game, a very serious game.
