Barbara Deming Quotes
After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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This little hobbit saves the world. The wizard kills the dragon and saves the town. So many people connect to that character; it doesn't matter if it's an elf or a hobbit or a dwarf. It doesn't matter. They're human in their heart and soul.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
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The revolution doesn't always look perfect.
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Once again, Pat Robertson leaves us speechless with his insensitivity and arrogance.
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As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
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Generally, we use light to illuminate other things. I like the thingness, the materiality of light itself. So it feels like it's occupying the space, making a plane, being something that was there, not just passing through. Because light is just passing through. I make these spaces that seem to arrest it for our perception.
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I'm a total rink rat. I can do the toe loop, the lutz, a flip, and the Scholz. That's one I invented. It's like me - you jump, you rotate in the wrong direction, and you land on the wrong foot.
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Everybody these days wants to be a star, including myself. Don't get me wrong, I'm a chef but you want to market yourself and your projects.
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When you put a tour together you really just think about who you'd like on your bill, who would make sense and who you would want to live with basically for a couple months and be around with and work with.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
