Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (Balthus) Quotes
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The presence and the present of America are a future; our continent is, by its nature, the land which does not exist on its own, but as something which is created and invented.
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If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.
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I love working the legislative process.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I've never read for a movie, I've always been given them.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
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I've had to be tough my whole life.
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The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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British girls are really funny, so I definitely think we'd get along.
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A woman should have the right to carry a gun.
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Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look very carefully and weigh very carefully what anyone says.
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My mother was in the kind of late-'60s, early-'70s origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, 'You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.'
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There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
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My grandfather died before I started making films, but I definitely learnt this from him: believe in your own judgment and stick to your guns - 99% of the time, you'll be glad you did.
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People tell me that I am well-grounded. I am sane in the New England sense of the word.
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What makes us really, truly successful over the long term has a ton to do with our social interactions and the influence we do or don't have with other people.
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I wouldn't say I'm stuck in my adolescence, but I think, like a lot of people, I carry my teen years with me. I feel really in touch with those feelings, and how intense and complicated life seems in those years.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
