Nilo Cruz Quotes
I can only respond as an artist, because that’s what I am. I’m not going to become a politician all of a sudden. I am a politician in terms of the plays that I write, the way I embrace culture, the way I embrace characters that, in my particular case, have to do with the Latino world. And I embrace the Latino experience…
Nilo Cruz
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London is the financial capital of Europe, a great platform to America and Asia. I love the fact that in British culture you can be whoever you want, and people don't even look at you. I don't feel that in Paris or Milan.
Lapo Elkann
We live in a culture that's been hijacked by the management consultant ethos. We want everything boiled down to a Power Point slide. We want metrics and 'show me the numbers.' That runs counter to the immensely complex nature of so many social, economic and political problems. You cannot devise an algorithm to fix them.
Carl Honore
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
Aaron Johnson
A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
Orson Welles
Our philosophy is you need to give nonprofit money for health, nutrition, education, culture, and sports.
Carlos Slim
I don't believe in the so-called Latino explosion when it comes to movies. Jennifer Lopez doesn't have an accent. She grew up in New York speaking English, not Spanish. Her success is very important because she represents a different culture, but it doesn't help me.
Salma Hayek
I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last for a long time. And I think as the generations go on and everything, you know, my hope is it can be a rite of passage for black fathers and their sons. Like, when are they old enough to watch 'Django Unchained'?
Quentin Tarantino
War implies a lack of comprehension of mutual national interests; it means the undermining and even the end of culture.
Carlos Saavedra Lamas
To be a truly conscientious artist, you have to look at what's not working and challenge it. You riff on things.
Kara Walker
You cannot transpose the U.S. system on Turkey, and the Turkish system on France etc. You have to understand the people and their culture. That's leadership.
Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa
The work of art is always unfaithful to its creator... Art lays at a higher level; it says something more, and almost always, it says something different from what the artist wanted to say.
Octavio Paz
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know?
Alan Ball
Being bad. Discomfort with your body. Bad self image. All those things turn you into an artist. The same things that keep you from being in a proper marriage.
Amy Sillman
We are all a little bit hippy, a little bohemian. We take that from the culture we knew, from the '70s and the '80s.
Nicolas Maduro
If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Denis Diderot
People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem.
Albert Bandura
When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.
Andrea Riseborough
I can only respond as an artist, because that’s what I am. I’m not going to become a politician all of a sudden. I am a politician in terms of the plays that I write, the way I embrace culture, the way I embrace characters that, in my particular case, have to do with the Latino world. And I embrace the Latino experience…
Nilo Cruz