Carlisle Floyd Quotes
If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I think that's just part of how it is with making art. Sometimes you're just flooded with ideas, and then other times you're questioning all the ideas you ever had before, and everything is just... lame.
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The differences between friends cannot but reinforce their friendship.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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The 2 million people who work in the NHS and social care are also themselves patients and users. I know they all want to treat patients and users the way they and their families would want to be treated and that is the purpose of our reforms.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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I dislike when people try to pigeonhole me, when all I want is to do good work.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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Unfortunately, music devolved instead of evolved. The music business got into the hands of lawyers and accountants rather than the entrepreneurial creative people, and that's when the beginning of the end started. It's all based on money instead of art and creativity.
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The life of the hereafter is the outcome of all this world.
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Individually, I am very happy because I can play in every game. I can be on the pitch and do what I like to do, which is play football.
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My bedroom is my sanctuary. It's like a refuge, and it's where I do a fair amount of designing - at least conceptually, if not literally.
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I believe that sex is good and so is the body.
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It's more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.
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Every single person is the star of their own story, which means that every single person goes through the gamut of emotional experiences that we’re trying to get on stage and tell.
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It's helpful to have a handbag that's a bit crazy, or shoes that have kiwis on them or something, because it distracts.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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I think that Malcolm X was the most remarkable historical figure produced by Black America in the 20th century.
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If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
