Emil Ruder Quotes
They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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I have never found out that there was in my family an artist or anyone interested in the arts or sciences, and I have never been sufficiently interested in my 'family tree' to bother. My father and mother had come to America on one of those great waves of immigration that followed persecution and pogroms in Czarist Russia and Poland.
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I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!
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Hard courts are very negative for the body. I know the sport is a business and creating these courts is easier than clay or grass, but I am 100 per cent sure it is wrong.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.
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It's through engagement with the world, and not separation from it, that something with meaning gets produced.
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I came from a dance background, so that's what I did my whole teenage years. I was at the dance studio a lot. It just becomes your social scene and part of your life.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.
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I could make up characters till the cows came home. Plot's what hard. Very hard.
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I cried when I heard Johnny Carson died.
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In a fascist system, it's not the lies that count but the muddying. When citizens can't tell real news from fake, they give up their demands for accountability bit by bit.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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But though I repeated my plea, and waited on my knees for nearly an hour, there was no answer.
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There's a fun, nostalgic aspect to Legos - people connect to the art on a different level. But it's also a medium that lets me design anything I can imagine. I especially enjoy creating curvy forms using rectangular pieces. Up close, you notice the sharp angles, but when you back away, the corners blend into curves.
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The sports apparel industry was dominated by the big shoe companies. But there was a void in apparel and I decided to fill it.
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My records are basically a litany of complaints against the world, and I'm quite like that in real life as well.
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When I'm directing, I noticed I'm not using my subconscious at all. I'm literally using the whole front part of my brain all the time. When you walk on the set, every moment you have to be there because something's going on that requires attention.
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They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
