Arnold Friberg Quotes
I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.
Quotes to Explore
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
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We do not want to alienate supporters.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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I was swept by the narrative structure of film... you can create a world, you can destroy it, you can do what you want with it and serve it to people just the way you like.
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You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.
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I assume that we are all limited by our own brains and experiences and can only understand other people and other creatures through a kind of translation that brings them closer to us.
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I want to work with directors who can tell intimate stories in a way that feels universal and with a big enough scope and depth to travel outside of Iceland.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
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Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
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I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.
