Austin Osman Spare Quotes
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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I like sleeping a lot.
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I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
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Sometimes success breeds apathy. Sometimes when you're doing quite well for yourself you're not as tough as you need to be.
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I think I really see myself doing TV more than ever.
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Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.
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Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.
