Nicholas Serota Quotes
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I just don't want to be rapping forever. I love it, but sometimes you got goals for yourself.
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Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
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Film and television are so piecemeal. You do one scene, and then you put it to bed, and then you do a scene that comes before. In a play, you have to go from beginning to end every night, and that's harder, but also more fulfilling in a way.
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The other advantage is that in conventional manufacturing processes, it takes a long time for a factory to produce an amount of product equal to its own weight. With molecular machines, the time required would be something more like a minute.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
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I wanted to reveal how genetic code is translated into protein. I knew a great application could be for antibiotics, since half of the useful ones target the ribosomes, but I didn't believe I could contribute to it. It was like the next Mount Everest to conquer. It was my dream to contribute something to humanity.
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When I see a wall that's hung with different objects, framed or unframed, what I like about it is its fluidity and rule-breaking nature. Just experiment a bit.
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I've realized that I'm more important than food is. I love a big slice of pizza, but I love myself more. Being thin is about changing the way you think about yourself. It's about saying that you deserve to be healthy.
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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.
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Deciding to not attach ourselves to something that doesn't appropriately represent us is extremely powerful.
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I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!
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Don't be discouraged by writer's block. Writer's block just means you need to listen to other music.
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I'm into anything that really helps children.
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The quality of a person's life does not depend on the circumstances of his life as much as the attitude with which he faces those circumstances.
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We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.
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I believe the American people are entitled to some straight talk when it comes to higher education funding.
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I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.
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I ask her if she loves me and I always feel bad when I ask her that because it makes me sound so desperate. I ask and ask and ask.
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Like icebergs, people normally expose only a small part of themselves, and generally just the part they wish to show.
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The shock, even disgust, provoked by the work is part of its appeal.
