Marcel Dzama Quotes

Every now and then, I like to take a break from the visual arts and play a few songs on guitar. I don't play them for anyone.

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• It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Worry

• I'm an actress, not a pinup.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Actress

• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Meaningful

• If there is inequality, and that equates with colour, then I'm going to deal with it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Going
  • Colour
  • Inequality

• I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Small
  • Airplane
  • Village

• Every day, members of the LGBTQ community deal with challenges that most Americans will never have to face. These challenges appear in the workplace, in your homes, in your community, and even in the halls of Congress.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Community
  • Day
  • Challenges

• Has anybody ever seen a dramatic critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • Up
  • Good
  • Dark

• My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Father
  • Potential
  • Philanthropic

• The book is the only medium left that hasn’t been corrupted by the profane.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Book

• The outlaw uses the knife to separate the persona from the self. The outlaw uses the warrior’s sword to cut through his own character armor to destroy the defense mechanisms that have kept him imprisoned within the citadel of personality and role.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Warrior

• Wer Wissenschaft und Kunst besitzt, / Hat auch Religion / Wer jene beiden nicht besitzt / Der habe Religion

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• When beginning the cold open with another person Please state your name for the camera.

  

  Craig Ferguson
  • Beginning
  • Cold

• It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • May
  • Reflection

• If being a decent soul is being maternal, then fine.

  

  Mary Beard
  • Soul

• 'Step Brothers' is probably the film the most people who approach me want to talk about.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • People

• I wrote a fan e-mail to Michael Chabon.

  

  Bill Hader

• I do think that's so much a part of what being a director is - in working with actors - to really try and be sensitive to what each actor needs to get to where he wants to be.

  

  Bill Condon

• Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

  

  David Hume

• Google, Facebook, and other consumer web companies violate our privacy. But that's only because they have an ad-based business model. They can only make money by selling your data - and degrading the product experience with ads.

  

  Jose Ferreira
  • Money
  • Business
  • Experience

• We tried out Question Mark and thought he was a really good singer. He had good showmanship, so we brought him in the band.

  

  Bobby Balderrama Question Mark & the Mysterians
  • Band
  • Singer
  • Tried

• I do like things that are not necessarily a reflection of what is considered the right thing by this culture. Somehow, promoting that status quo I find uninteresting.

  

  Crispin Glover
  • Culture
  • Reflection

• I'm inspired by love, by the moments that we commit to something with all our heart - be it a person, a project, an animal, anything really. It's undeniably inspiring, that acknowledgment of existence, that I love, that I care. That fills me with purpose.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • Heart
  • Person
  • Animal

• Every now and then, I like to take a break from the visual arts and play a few songs on guitar. I don't play them for anyone.

  

  Marcel Dzama