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The great Japanese film director Akira Kurosawa said that to be an artist means never to avert your eyes. And that's the hardest thing, because we want to flinch. The artist must go into the white hot center of himself, and our impulse when we get there is to look away and avert our eyes.
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I have the dream to continue being in an art context, but also be able to continue doing stuff in television on the web.
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What are we going to say if tomorrow it occurs to some African state to send its agents into Mississippi and to kidnap one of the leaders of the segregationist movement there? And what are we going to reply if a court in Ghana or the Congo quotes the Eichmann case as precedent?
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I still can't set up the ironing-board. A complete Luddite.
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The less apparent the means and manner of the artist, the more directly will his work appeal to the understanding and the feelings.
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A theater person should know what holds an audience and what does not.
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Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.
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He said it's an honor to fight me, well I say that it's an honor to fight him as well.
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It is not surprising that in talking about uncertainty we should lean heavily on facts, just as the court of law does when interrogating witnesses. Facts form a sort of bedrock on which we can build the shifting sands of uncertainty.
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The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.
