Nicholas Serota Quotes
UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I have to entertain, because if I don't entertain you, you're not going to continue reading. But if I'm not out to enlighten, or change your mind about something, or change your behavior, then I really don't want to take the journey.
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Being confident in your own skin is very sexy. I think when you have fun and are yourself that is sexy too.
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By understanding and harnessing the forces that drive human behavior, you can create a self-sustaining philanthropic effort that reaches millions of people. It begins with an entrepreneurial attitude: take an idea and execute on that idea. If it doesn't work, learn why and build on what you've learned.
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I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
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As far as I'm concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face.
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We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
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Everything bad that has ever happened to me has been caused by agents or lawyers.
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I believe that women should be treated just like men.
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Vegas is like the old definition of writing: though I don't enjoy writing, I love having written. Though I didn't enjoy Vegas, I love having lived there.
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There are limits to how much sound a cello can make. That's part of the framing of acoustical instruments. Finding what those limits might be, and then trying to suggest perhaps even the illusion of going beyond is part of that kind of effort.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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The Church had its own law code and its own courts of law which were supreme over the clergy, and had large rights of jurisdiction even over the laity, so that it could develop and give effect to its own ideas of law and right.
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But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled making Christmas cards with the mentally ill.I want to live and I want to love.I want to catch something that I might be ashamed of.
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I grew up in a somewhat religious family. My dad's family isn't religious at all, but my mom's side of the family is, so I was exposed to church a bit.
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In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.
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Sourav has got a huge role to play in Indian cricket and its success. I hope certainly that he gets back in there because he is a hell of a good player and he still has got too much to offer to Indian cricket.
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He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.
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I am interested in the conventions of picture-making, in the desire to picture the world and in our relationship, our continual love for and fascination with pictures.
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Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.
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UBS have been important supporters of Tate Modern since 2000 and we are delighted to announce this exciting and unique partnership.
