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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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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I like sleeping a lot.
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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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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.
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It seemed that rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it: such a base as we had in the Red Sea Parts, the desert, or in the minds of the men we converted to our creed.
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When I met Dante I didn't work in the movies, but I enjoyed so much the movies. I worked in interior design and when I met Dante, we tried to do something together.
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Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.
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I think I have it all. But I won't say that the credit for all that goes to me. I think the credit for all that goes to everybody around me. I mean, I have it all because my entire family is so cooperative. I have it all because my children did not whine and cry when I was not there. So, I think it's, you know, in a way, a two-way street.
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I worked at the New York Civil Liberties Union as a starving actor in the early '80s. I was in love with what they were doing.
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Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.
