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 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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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 don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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The first thing I learned as a producer is that you have very little control over the life of a project. Anything can stall a film from financing to scheduling to casting. Things fall apart all the time. Don't waste time on something that just won't get made. Try to have as many projects going at one time as you can handle.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
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I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.
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When you're starting out, you basically have all these assumptions about what it means to be an artist or how to be a rock star. It took me years, through trial and error, to figure out what does work for me. So much of it is counter to the myth of the rock-star life.
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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.
