Barry McGee Quotes
I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.
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I don't see that many movies lately that are actually about something, that are trying to challenge something about the way that people interact.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
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I'm trying to work in studio movies, but they won't hire me.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Mr. Trump, Americans can't afford, and don't want, to worry about the latest lawsuit filed against their president. And you're not immune from these suits once you enter the Oval Office. Anything you've done before taking office is fair game.
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If you have real passion for a career in game shows, be willing to serve an apprenticeship; it's the best way to learn.
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I've gone back and forth with fine-tuning the kind of conditioning I'm doing. Sometimes trying to shed weight and getting leaner and sometimes trying to pack on a little more muscle.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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I don't attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'
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There have been two areas identified as being vital to reading - and that's for very young children between the ages of one month and five years and for teenagers. I've been trying to find ways of approaching both groups.
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I don't pay attention to auction prices. Nothing interests me less. One of the benefits of not being an artist is I don't have to navigate the social hierarchies of the art world as a person of desire. I don't need anything. I live in a different way.
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Kids are pretty resilient. You don't have to be at every volleyball game. We can't guilt ourselves.
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As an actor, you're listening to the other person and always trying to be present and take everything they're giving you, but when they're not there, you have to produce that yourself.
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If I didn't have children I might be more of a lush than I am. I like booze. I struggle with smoking. And I'm a big swearer. I'm trying to rein it in but I do think it's a nice seasoning of language.
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If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.
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For me as an actor because I've been at it so long, it becomes much harder to watch movies because you really see the seams of everything.
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I don't think you necessarily have to be part of a traditional nuclear family to be a good mother.
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Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.
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I wasn't trying to turn graffiti into an art form. I just wanted to learn about art. I wanted to learn this game.
