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"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
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"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."
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"If we think about the obvious long enough, it dissolves."
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"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
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"Sometimes you could tell what it was about - it was interesting - and sometimes it was quite obvious that someone had lost it and it was on an endless loop."
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"Don't be too clever for an audience. Make it obvious. Make the subtleties obvious also."
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"Never assume the obvious is true."
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"The great discoveries are usually obvious."
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"On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself."
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"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer."
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"It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
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"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."
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"The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch."
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"I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms."
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"I have a picture of an ideal consciousness."
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"In classical oil painting, there seemed to be a radical turn to seeing things as the camera sees them, with that technological modification. I began to have a tremendous problem with all of this."
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"I'm trying to assemble materials for a different mode of life."
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"When I began competing with the other artists in New York, I discovered classical North Indian music."
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"Basically, I viewed any work of art as an imposition of another person's taste, and saw the individual making this imposition as a kind of dictator."
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"Around 1967 I began backing away from dogmatic Leninism, not so much because I thought it was false, I just decided there was nothing utopian about it."
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"I was a student at Harvard, and that's where I learned about so-called avant-garde music. Jackson Pollock, abstract expressionism and painting were well known at this time."
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