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You can do great things with low-tech stuff.
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Life goes by so fast. It's really - and a lot of times things happen so fast you don't know - how should I react.
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I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
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There are plenty of ways you can play the game of fighting and really seem to be fighting without going for the jugular.
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At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.
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I'm actually not someone who believes in heaven or anything like that.
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The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.
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I didn't really understand that Vipassana is a relatively new form of Buddhism that was based on the storage of pain. So the idea is that every time you don't scream, that's your Buddhist side.
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I've been trying to avoid goal-oriented behavior.
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Audiences, whether they're seeing a film or a reading or whatever it is, a concert, they decide very quickly what kind of show it is, and then they judge it. They judge the rest of the thing by whether it conforms to their rules for what a good symphony orchestra would be.
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Besides all those whaling details, Moby Dick is about someone who's looking for something so huge, something they've wanted all their life, yet they know when they find it, it will kill them.
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A lot of the work in United States is highly critical of technology. I'm using 15,000 watts of power and 18 different pieces of electronic equipment to say that.
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Computers are so deeply stupid. What bother me most when they talk about technology is they don't realize how much more exciting their minds are. That machine is stupid. And boring. It does just a few things and then it'll crash. People think, 'I am on the Net, I am in touch with the world'. Wrong! The point is how we work, not how machines work.
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I believe that the purpose of death is the release of love.
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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
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I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.
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Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.
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I realized why movie scores are mostly strings, because it really frees your eyes to look around.
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Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories.
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My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.
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The right to carry a gun has nothing to do with the rights of other people.
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I have written a lot about snakes. There's something pretty primordial about it.
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Technology today is the campfire around which we tell our stories. There's this attraction to light and to this kind of power, which is both warm and destructive. We're especially drawn to the power. Many of the images of technology are about making us more powerful, extending what we can do. Unfortunately, 95 percent of this is hype, because I think we're powerful without it.
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I've never really had a hobby, unless you count art, which the IRS once told me I had to declare as a hobby since I hadn't made money with it.
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