Albert Oehlen Quotes
I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm happy. I'm at a concert. But I have to somehow drum up that rage. That's acting.
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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Rules necessary for definitions. Not to leave any terms at all obscure or ambiguous without definition; Not to employ in definitions any but terms perfectly known or already explained.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature.
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I played a ton of team sports growing up, and team wins are just incredibly gratifying.
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I'm not a big theory person. So when I get asked questions that demand serious statements, I just make it up.
