Hans-Ulrich Obrist Quotes
I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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We all sit in front of our mics and our scripts lay on music stands. Then the silliness begins!
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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The road to democracy is rarely smooth, but for Egyptian women, it has been exceptionally bumpy.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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I did 'Shameless' on Showtime, and I felt like I really tried to go super-method with that, and it would just make my days really hard to get in and out of character.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.
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In order for me to be successful... In order to be a great artist - musician, actor, painter, whatever - you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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History repeats itself. Historians repeat each other.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
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Express who you are in a world where everyone is the same.
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
