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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All my plays have these titles that are oddly tricky. I like that something can look like one thing but mean two different things. Language is really unstable in that way.
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I've been working on 'The New York Times' crossword puzzle on the subway. I can make it until about Wednesday.
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He has known joy and violence. Felt the warmth of children and the cruelty of abuse. He has nearly died saving lives and merely been killed by a drunken act. He has known the finery of grand estates and the filth of stinking slums. He has survived fire and flood, starvation and torment. And nothing could break his spirit-or his great love. This is HIS life. He is called the horse.
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People are used to being coddled.
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I just always liked the company. The people who hung around her were amazing storytellers, whether it was actors or crew. They were just exciting people. And I knew that they were different when I would go see a friend or stay at someone else's house. It just wasn't as cool. So I always loved the theater, and that's where I started: at a theater up in Canada.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
