Win Butler Quotes
The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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Self-confidence has always been one of my good qualities. I am always very confident. It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive. And it applies in my batting as well as wicketkeeping.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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I don't decide where I live. My wife decides. She's a curator of contemporary art, and she works at an art museum, so we go wherever she has a job. All basements look the same, so I can write from whatever basement I happen to be living in.
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After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.
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It's important to know how to operate within the system you are existing in.
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After every difficulty, ask yourself two questions: 'What did I do right?' and 'What would I do differently?
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I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.
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The idea of peer critique, of talking about each other's art - I just found it so useless.
