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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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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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It's my job in Hollywood to find roles where I get to be a character not a bathing suit.
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I read the novel 'Miracle at St. Anna' when it was first released, and I loved it.
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I loved moustaches. I used to draw myself with one. When I was 14, I was really into war and Van Gogh.
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It's not like what I do, how I write, changes depending on the nature of the project. I give each story my all, regardless of if there are a few thousand people reading it or a few hundred thousand.
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My husband and I go to Il Fico every Friday, and I get the whole-wheat pizza. I won't eat pizza anywhere else!
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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.
