Lili Taylor Quotes
We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't know I wanted to act until it was around 21. I had just come back to Los Angeles after two and half years of traveling and working as a dancer and singer and was looking for a new performing art to study. I started taking acting classes and fell in love.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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A lot of EDM is not bad at all when it's simple, but a lot of it is not really musical. That's just what I really like to do: taking what I had at the beginning, which is classical and jazz influences, and putting it into electro.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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I had traveled 10 states and played over 50 cities by the time I was 4.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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I think that music is still art, even if it's commercialised.
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Figure skating is a mixture of art and sport.
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Doesn't the fight for survival also justify swindle and theft? In self defence, anything goes.
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We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to understand.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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I think it was my mom's attitude about art and being part of the narcissistic digital generation or whatever that made me think anyone would care what I had to say about anything!
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I can always get better. A lot of my ex-girlfriends don't think I'm funny.
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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
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When the economy is growing, there's a lot that can be done to deal with the deficit.
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When it's complicated at family level, that can stop you from being at ease in your job.
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With everything I do, I just try to be myself.
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We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
