Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes

To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.

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• I think, doing a first film, at some point you get halfway through, and you wonder, 'Is this is good enough to define who I am for the coming decade?'

  

  Sam Jaeger
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• I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.

  

  Kate Thompson
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• In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

  

  J. I. Packer
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• I'd like to one day be featured on a list of inspirational people who have made a difference in the world, whether it be helping underprivileged people or putting an end to the poaching of wildlife in Africa.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
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• But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films.

  

  Taylor Hackford
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• What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.

  

  Walter Annenberg
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• You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
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• I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• For the last few years I've tried to force myself to write at least one page every day, which doesn't sound like much but it's actually pretty hard to manage. Because I'm not allowed to do a make-up day. I can't do two pages the next day. The punishment for not completing my page is that I have to eat a vegetarian meal the next day.

  

  Dan Chaon
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• Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.

  

  Patrick Warburton
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• It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.

  

  Karine Vanasse
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• I always suggest that when you're going through cancer to find something in your day that makes you feel centered and that makes you feel good.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
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• To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it.

  

  J. R. Moehringer
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• But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.

  

  Wendell Willkie
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• Having been on tour in countries that are extremely eco-friendly, we automatically end up doing the things that normal people do in other countries.

  

  Kaki King
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• Honestly, there are so many things about structuring a story for film and telling a story for film that are really different from doing radio.

  

  Ira Glass
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• I don't necessarily call myself a psychic, but since I was a little girl, I would dream about things, and then I would tell my dad, and it would happen the next day.

  

  Zoe McLellan
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• We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.

  

  Dacre Montgomery
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• Sometimes, our expectations of being all-knowing is somewhat unrealistic. At the end of the day, there are people out there who mean harm to us, are thinking about doing harm to us and motivated to do it, and we don't know what that is.

  

  Jack Keane
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• As a grandson of farmers in downstate Illinois, I have long admired the dedication of farmers to their work and have written about the role of agriculture in American innovation.

  

  Edmund Phelps
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• Having spent two years at AOL, I would love to be able to go back to that industry knowing what I know, and I think I would be able to help the traditional media side to better understand what is coming at them, how to deal with it.

  

  Randy Falco
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• There are a lot of different facets to my personality that I don't use all the time in my house, or in everyday life, that I can experience and share when I'm on a stage.

  

  Nancy Marchand
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• To record is a process against forgetting. I do interviews because it's what I've been doing every day for a few hours since I was a kid. I've always talked to artists.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
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