Barbara Kruger Quotes
Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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Beauty is boring because it is predictable.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children…
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If the press descended, the science would surely suffer.
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We were below welfare. We begged from people on welfare. My father tried to repair our shoes with pieces of bicycle tires.
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You never do a movie and not want it to work. You accept whatever it is. You have to, but nobody in their right mind would not want the movie to be getting talked about at the end of the year.
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I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest.
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Do you know why language manifests itself the way it does in my work? It's because I understand short attention spans.
