Charles Saatchi Quotes
Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything.
Quotes to Explore
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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You have to find out how to become the character.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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I'm still coming to terms with what it's like to have people follow your personal life as well as your public life. It gets amusing.
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I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.
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Midi is my hobby.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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I always say that I don't like it when people follow trends too much, just because it is on the runway. I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Frankly speaking, it's only the script that matters to me the most. If I like the script, then I just commit to myself and go ahead with it. But I also look at the commitment and confidence of the director of the film because it's him who will shape the film.
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I love rock n' rollers.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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Relationships are people's No. 1 priorities. They want to have good relationships, and a lot of times they don't.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
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It was an instinct to put the world in order that powered her mending split infinitives and snipping off dangling participles, smoothing away the knots and bumps until the prose before her took on a sheen, like perfect caramel.
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I've never wanted sympathy votes in anything I do in my life.
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I fear becoming formulaic. Some of my books are.
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Revision has its own peculiar pleasures and its own peculiar frustrations. The ground rules are already established; the characters already exist. You don't have to bring the characters to life, but you do have to make them more convincing.
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Some people in the art world bemoan the hedge fund millionaires spending freely to acquire ostentatious displays of wealth and coolth for their giddily chic designer duplexes. Others bemoan art being treated as a commodity. But most of the bemoaning is because the art world is stuffed full of bemoaners, bemoaning about everything.
