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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None of us older writers had gone through such a school. We are all self-taught. And, of course, there is always, in such a school, the danger of goose-stepping, uniformed ranks. But the Serapion Brethren have already, it seems to me, outgrown this danger. Each of them has his own individuality and his own handwriting. The common thing they have derived from the studio is the art of writing with ninety-proof ink, the art of eliminating everything that is superfluous, which is, perhaps, more difficult than writing.
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I played good ball in the minor leagues, and that's why they called me up to the major leagues.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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If you're involved in filmmaking, you want to challenge yourself.
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No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.
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We need art. We've been telling stories since the beginning. As human beings, we need it for our survival.
