Clive Bell Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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I hope Obama gets scary in the next four years, 'cuz he ain't gotta worry about getting re-elected.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
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I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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I arrived there straight from Africa' - and I can tell you, Minnesota soon taught me the value of a thick overcoat, a warm scarf and even ear-muffs!
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Different people have different styles, but there is an opportunity as a director to be a writer in every moment, with every visual cue and every piece of production design. Everything is a decision, and everything can be obsessed over.
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There were a lot of people who didn't think we'd get to this milestone.
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All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.
