Kenneth Noland Quotes
I have to work things out by painting them. I can't just imagine what will happen. I have to do it and see it. That's the only way I find out if it will go anywhere.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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I still can't believe it when people say I am a celebrity.
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.
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My character in the first instalment of 'GOW' was very shy and reserved. It was completely different from 'Kahaani,' where I played a no-nonsense cop. And in the second instalment of 'GOW,' it is again very different.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.
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I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration.
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I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
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A lot of guys spend their lives saying no because it's an easier way to keep your job.
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If you ask me what the world looks like to me, it looks like a painting by Pissarro.
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I'm probably one of the few people that liked 'Water World' with Kevin Costner.
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I have to work things out by painting them. I can't just imagine what will happen. I have to do it and see it. That's the only way I find out if it will go anywhere.
