Bill Viola Quotes

In the 1970s, a lot of critics didn't understand video. I got a lot of bad reviews. But film-makers didn't understand what we were doing, either. There were actual fistfights between film-makers and video-makers. I was witness to one.

Bill Viola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 25, 1951

Topics

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I'm always telling people baseball needs to be more prominent in the African American community. What a better way to do so, going on these TV shows and appearing on the cover of this or that. Now kids can see how baseball can change your life. Frank Thomas did that for me.

Matt Kemp

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Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or whatever. I think it's a fairly common story.

Stephan Pastis

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I'm always sticking up for other people.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

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I feel every film has its own charm and gets made for a purpose.

Sridevi

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In the end, one has to feel lucky that things fell out O.K. I've felt that all the years I've been writing plays.

Tom Stoppard

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Life is full of constant ups and downs, and all I ask for is redemption in the end.

Robin Thicke

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I've been to the Vatican more than anyplace else outside this country in the world. I am mesmerized by it.

Rush Limbaugh

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Dad thought something very fishy was going on when, at 22, I was offered a job for £1,000 a year - more than Dad paid his own staff - for inventing cheese recipes and writing leaflets at the Dutch Dairy Bureau in London.

Mary Berry

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Part of the responsibility of the technology industry is to anticipate the challenges of the vast majority of its future users and proactively start thinking about them now and proactively build products that address those challenges.

Jared Cohen

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I just find myself happy with the simple things. Appreciating the blessings God gave me.

DMX

GodMyselfSimpleHappyMeFind

I feel like I've got a nice little niche where I stay just below the radar, which is perfect. I just don't want to be known for anything other than music.

Dierks Bentley

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Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape, and faced with its beauty, the sigh of History dissolves.

Derek Walcott

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