Elizabeth Diller Quotes
Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.
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I've had the good fortune to have a much more diverse life than most people would, professional sports and television and news and movies.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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I can speak French, understand Gaelic and know my history. That's the training music has given me.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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At my father's request I took up the study of law at the University of Zurich In 1863.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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There are definitely - there is definitely an element of Donald Trump's support that has its basis in racism or xenophobia. But a lot of these folks are just really hardworking people who are struggling in really important ways.
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The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
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There's an academic tradition called the 'Last Lecture.' Hypothetically, if you knew you were going to die and you had one last lecture, what would you say to your students? Well, for me, there's an elephant in the room. And the elephant in the room, for me, it wasn't hypothetical.
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Despite overwhelming support for the United States to adopt English as its official language, we have still not taken that important step.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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When I did 'Hot Fuzz,' I tried to get Barbara Steele in the movie, but I was told she had retired.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
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Victimism can be seen as a generalized cultural impulse to deny personal responsibility and to obsess on the grievances of the insatiable self.
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Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
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The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away the inessential preoccupations for those who do not flee from the thought of death into triviality.
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...all earlier pluralist societies destroyed themselves because no one took care of the common good. They abounded in communities but could not sustain community, let alone create it.
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Being a New Yorker and someone that goes to MoMA as a patron, I want it to be good.
