Kenneth Noland Quotes
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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If you're not careful as an actor, you can find yourself, at a certain point, a little bit bored.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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The more work I do and the more I put myself out there publicity-wise, it's gonna be less and less chances of me being able to just walk around without being noticed.
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Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.
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My parents' divorce made an important change in my life. It affected me. After that, when I can't play Wimbledon, it was tough. For one month I was outside the world.
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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I love singing and would love to record an album at some point.
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Pilates is great.
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In Edna, I created a satiric portrait of my hometown of Melbourne, a large provincial English city paradoxically in far Southeast Asia. She's a theatrical figure, related to vaudeville in some respects. She inhabits a world in which there are comparatively few female exponents of comedy.
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I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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We were born and we die. In between, I think we try to live as best we can.
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I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.
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I don't feel drawn to lightness, I need something more. I feel that - oh, I hate saying this, it sounds so wanky - but I feel a real urge to give voices to people we don't usually hear from in real life.
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Everyone's a geek in some way or other. Everyone's an outsider.
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Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
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With comedians, you have that understanding that we're trying to get laughs.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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A city, far from being a cluster of buildings, is actually a sequence of spaces enclosed and defined by buildings.
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For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.
