Lars von Trier Quotes
You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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The thing about influence is that any composer worth anything will give you the same names.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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At the Museum of Roman Art, the logic of the forms is very much modern. But in spite of that, the idea of the construction could be related to a historical time.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
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You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.
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As an actor sometimes we sit and wait for projects to be handed to us and we don't really work. We expect our agents and managers to know who we are and to see who we are and offer us a part or send us out and submit us.
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In college, I started to get soaked in the materials. Subsequently, I worked with R.W.B. Lewis, Robert Penn Warren, and Cleanth Brooks on a history of American literature - I did that for seven or eight years. In the course of that work, my interest in Faulkner deepened and has been sustained ever since.
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My hope is that 'Blk Girl Soldier' is a freedom song for black women today who are fighting the macro- and microaggressions of daily life in our city/country/world.
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The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that makes it all the way, is the one that achieves madness.
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You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
