Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (Balthus) Quotes
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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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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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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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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Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
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These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness.
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I sort of forgot about 'Z Channel' after it went off the air in 1989, but once Jason Resnick of Focus Features made the suggestion, I became obsessed all over again. I still am. I'll probably be this way until I'm 80, babbling about 'Z Channel.'
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
