Nicholas Serota Quotes
The argument that new vision becomes the reference point for the future, is a line that I have been driven to use on many occasions.
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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What I have found most surprising is the amount of damage we have done to environment in the course of my lifetime - not even five and a half decades.
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As a younger actor, I had delusions. I would dream of Scorsese and De Niro; I would meet people, and it would be like this, and it would change moviemaking in France, and Paris would become the center of the world.
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Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
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I tried martial arts classes for three weeks, but I quit because you actually get hit. I just want to do the movie kind of martial arts.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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If there are people you haven't forgiven, you're not going to really awaken. You have to let go.
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Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
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Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene I saw in a movie. I take inspiration from all different places.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I was a naughty kid. Teachers did not like me much.
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Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
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Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.
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I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.
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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
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Immigrants have always come into the country with low levels of education. Whether it's the Irish or Italian or Polish, here is the land of opportunity. It's where people come in at the bottom and build themselves up. To try to bring in people who have already made it is un-American.
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Every adult has the right to choose who they wish to spend their lives with, and we're all capable of making mistakes, but no one escapes with their self-regard intact.
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There is no question that creative intelligence comes not through learning things you find in books or histories that have already been written, but by focusing on and giving value to experience as it happens.
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Just as a fossil is 'petrified time,' so is an ancient artifact or text.
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I always knew I wanted to do something in entertainment. Since I could not sing, had no rhythm, and did not want to be a baby mama, I thought I would explore the Video DJ route.
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The argument that new vision becomes the reference point for the future, is a line that I have been driven to use on many occasions.
