Cindy Sherman Quotes
I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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You can't be a victim and heal.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
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Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
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No two wars are identical.
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Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must seek new literary influences; he will have different emotions to express.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I know what it's like to finish the laundry and to look in the basket five minutes later and it's full again. I know what it's like to pull all the groceries in, and see the teenagers run through, and all of a sudden, all of the groceries you just bought a few hours ago are gone.
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The mind is a metaphor of the world of objects which is itself but an endless circle of mutually reflecting metaphors.
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I think for me, the imaginary world was always exciting. I started in New York doing theatre, from having just one person in an audience to performing for a full house. I think I've always enjoyed playing different characters, blending into different environments and such.
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"God", "the immortality of the soul", "salvation", "the beyond"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?
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Life is complicated. It's filled with nuance. It's unsatisfying. If I believe in anything, it is doubt.
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I had to redo my last house after the pipes burst, and something was lost in the renovation. The soul of the old space was compromised.
