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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If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.
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I was bringing the whole music, hip-hop, art, break dancing and urban cultural thing to the downtown table.
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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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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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The art of it is, the more we can bring complex game mechanics to a mass market, the more engaging the games will be. But at the same time, we have to simplify everything: the mass market has a lower attention span; they're not seeking that experience from the outset.
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For one thing, Judo in reality is not a mere sport or game. I regard it as a principle of life, art and science. In fact, it is a means for personal cultural attainment.
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I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.
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If you ask me what I think about going to work every day, it's 9/11 and preventing another 9/11. There were too many people I knew.
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It's sort of a law of the art world: The stuff that grows in importance is only the stuff you bought because it wowed you.
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We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
