Bill Viola Quotes

You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.

Bill Viola

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Honestly, my sales pitch when I was a kid was, 'You don't want these Girl Scout cookies, do you?' If I had to push my own books, I'd stop writing. I hate the conflation of marketing and writing.

Jincy Willett

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Most young people find botany a dull study. So it is, as taught from the text-books in the schools; but study it yourself in the fields and woods, and you will find it a source of perennial delight.

John Burroughs

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Jesus viewed his own destiny - to be glorified in and through death - as an expression of a kind of cosmic principle: the pathway to life runs through death.

John Ortberg

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I look forward to working with the NASA team to help enable new discoveries in our quest to understand our home planet and unravel the mysteries of the universe.

John M. Grunsfeld

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The inevitable has always found me ready and hopeful.

Amelia Barr

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I don't feel awake in the morning unless I've showered.

Stella Maxwell

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When I first came to New York City in 1967, I joined up with Richard Schechner's Performance Group - where we worked in the Performing Garage in SoHo.

Spalding Gray

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I'm fine with gays. I have nothing against gays.

Rodrigo Duterte

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You really have to get to know Dewey to dislike him.

Robert Taft

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There's probably been very few people in comedy that have a diversified background as I do.

Ron Shock

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We owe the Aboriginal peoples a debt that is four centuries old. It is their turn to become full partners in developing an even greater Canada. And the reconciliation required may be less a matter of legal texts than of attitudes of the heart.

Romeo LeBlanc

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Telescopes and microscopes bring to our view the otherwise unseen and unknown.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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