Christopher Bollen Quotes
If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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Islam is a violent, I was going to say religion, but it's not a religion. It's a political system. It's a violent political system bent on the overthrow of the governments of the world and world domination. That is the ultimate aim.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.
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I find that talking about myself is often the most boring thing in the world. Sixty per cent of interviews I find mechanical.
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.
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Young women and men who joined the far-left groups did so for the best of reasons. They wanted to change the world. Many fought against the stifling atmosphere in many groups.
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To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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God created the world; the laws of nature were created by God. True science tries to find out what God put in the world. The trouble is where scientists speculate about theology and they don't know what they're talking about because they weren't there. They can't speculate about the origins of life because they weren't there.
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The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.
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A prophet such as we could use again today,strong,zealous,angry and gloomy in opposition to the leaders,the masses indeed the whole world.(Letter to his pastor Julius Schubring ,1846 regarding Medelssohn's choral work 'Elijah' published that year)
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The World Championship gold was a surprise and took a lot of pressure off in terms of qualifying for Rio, but I still need more points, and winning in Manchester would be massive for me.
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If I ever go back to college, I'd study art education.
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I can see a great beauty in acknowledging the fact that the world is dark.
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No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.
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The corsets I wore in The Railway Children are still in my undies drawer, a prized relic of my favourite film.
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I recently lost 50 pounds. I'm hovering on the cusp of a size eight, which seems unbelievable.
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Most of my friends are not actors. Most people have an idea of what an actor's life is, and it's pure glamour and excitement: it's easy and free and everyone loves you. But with a certain level of fame, there's a real level of paranoia and depression that comes with what you do, that nobody talks about.
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If you've been in the art world for more than eight years, you realize another generation is making the exact same work as the previous generation - but treating it like it's never been done before. It becomes very cyclical very quickly.
