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Neil MacGregor Quotes

The Louvre stopped buying paintings in 1848, and neither the Metropolitan nor the Hermitage acquire contemporary material.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: british
Birth: June 16, 1946

Topics

Buying Louvre Contemporary Material

When I'm not writing, I feel an awareness that something's missing. If I go a long time, it becomes worse. I become depressed. There's something vital that's not happening.

Time Writing Feel Long Go Long Time

Dance is a universal language, and whether you know how to dance or grew up training in dance, you have a respect for people who love to dance, and it's also visually very entertaining to watch a great dancer.

Love Respect Great Dance Training

I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I've done more. I know less about movies. You can't lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin - because celluloid is skin.

Love Lie Camera You Skin Know

I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.

Time Writing Believe Think Feel

Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.

Freedom Police People Law Democracy

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

Alone Man Being Alone Choose Movies

I grew up listening to a lot of early '90s hip-hop. I had the debut Wu-Tang album, Biggie, Snoop, that kind of stuff. Hieroglyphics, the Gravediggaz. I remember D.O.C.'s 'The Portrait of a Masterpiece' was something that had a big influence on me.

Me Listening Influence Portrait Kind

We will 'de-age' progressively, as cures are developed.

Will Cures Developed

I can think of no one more relevant and credible in the hip-hop community to build upon Def Jam's fantastic legacy and move the company into its next groundbreaking era.

Community Legacy Think I Can Hip-Hop

I'm not a bad golfer, and I'm not the best, either.

Jose Pablo Cantillo

Best Bad Either Golfer

I need my time to be lonely.

Time Lonely Need My Time

Working together, they will dig out the truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in '99, to assign responsibility, and to look at the institutional failings.

Jose Ramos-Horta

Truth Working Together Responsibility

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