Charles Baudelaire Quotes
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Dance and I are synonymous, and nobody can take away dance from my life. Also, I cannot look at dance in an inert way; it's my passion, and I get keen on being part of any show or film that has dance!
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I've found that musical theater is my passion.
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Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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I strongly believe that the art of the novel works best when the writer identifies with whoever he or she is writing about. Novels in the end are based on the human capacity, compassion, and I can show more compassion to my characters if I write in a first person singular.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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I am full of fire and passion. I am not ready yet for great concentration and passion.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Nothing that the mind of man can conceive is impossible.
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With experience, you suddenly realise you know how to do things or that you've done something like this before. And I think as you get more confident, you can sit back and try and weigh up the options of doing something or not doing something.
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Baseball is one of the most beautiful games. It is. It is a very Zen-like game.
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A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
