Kenneth Noland Quotes
We tend to discount a lot of meaning that goes on in life that's non-verbal. Color can convey a total range of mood and expression, of one's experience in life, without having to give it descriptive or literary qualities.
Quotes to Explore
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.'
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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If you don't ponder the end of the world on a regular basis, I don't think you're really human.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Life is like an analogy.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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People read more mysteries than they do political pamphlets.
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Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.
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My conscious life has all been in Kenya, and it's my point of reference. But going back to Mexico was very formative.
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I have lived my life in the slipstream of experience.
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It is a complex of buildings; a mosque, a guest house, an enormous entrance gate, four minaret towers and the tomb of Mumtaz Mahal, Shah Jahan’s wife. It is laid out in a rectangular grid on 42 acres along the Yamuna River, with water fountains and gardens and reflecting pools.
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We tend to discount a lot of meaning that goes on in life that's non-verbal. Color can convey a total range of mood and expression, of one's experience in life, without having to give it descriptive or literary qualities.
