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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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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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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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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History is opaque. You see what comes out, not the script that produces events, ... The generator of historical events is different from the events themselves, much as the minds of the gods cannot be read just by witnessing their deeds.
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I don't think you should ever damage other people for your art.
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I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.
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I definitely have been very mindful of what kind of leader and creator I want to be. A lot of that has to with looking at the writers that you work with. They're all like your children. They all need love, but different versions of it.
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Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
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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.
