Pablo Picasso Quotes
To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Growing up, I was taught that a woman should lower her gaze so that men could never know her thoughts. The so-called modesty of Arab women is, in fact, a war tactic.
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I never left doo wop.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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Turning 18 is a big deal.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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Theatre sports is the best improv training period.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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Even if you have insurance, you should apply by Jan. 5 if your home or business suffered damage from Hurricane Wilma.
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Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.
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I was embarrassed by it and racked by middle-class guilt. But when you're on stage, if you're trying to be something you're not, it becomes so much harder. It's better to be honest and take every vulnerability and flaw you have, and mock them and deal with them.
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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To me there is no past or future in art. If a work of art does not live in the present, it must not be considered at all.
