- Gift
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Progress
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all.
- Poetry
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a level at which, if you take poetry seriously, the focus it involves... that never goes away.
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had never been much of a science-fiction or Buck Rogers fan. I was more interested in what was going on right now than in the centuries to come.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was insecure and ashamed. Unless you're gay, being gay has never been looked at as being cool. And I wanted to be cool.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only way to really change perceptions, to break down barriers, break down homophobia, is through representation. That's definitely not something I had as a kid. I never saw a gay athlete kissing their boyfriend at the Olympics. I think if I had, it would've made it easier for me.
- Clockwork
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yeah, Kubrick's a big influence. In something like 'A Clockwork Orange,' he is trying to use the practical light - I mean, at least he says that in his interviews, like they're not using traditionally Hollywood lights. In 'Elephant' we basically used no lights; we never really adjusted.
- Research
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reason I know about 'Tomb Raider' is from when I was researching 'Elephant.' It was 1999, and I was trying to research the Columbine-massacre kids, and they had played video games, and I, at the time, had never really seen one. It was a world I didn't know.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you're all confidence, you never evolve or take risks. You're just stagnating in your artistry, whatever you're doing.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never let oneself be guided by the opinion of one's contemporaries. Continue steadfastly on one's way.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
- Nov 07, 2020
One never tires of what is well written, style is life! It is the very blood of thought!
- Pride
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cult of art gives pride; one never has too much of it.
- Journalist
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- Nov 07, 2020