Mark Bradford Quotes
The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive. As a citizen, you have to participate in that every day. You have to walk by until it's changed.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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I need nothing from my companion. No money, no financial security, no emotional support, nothing. All I want is the freedom to be myself.
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It's not my goal to be a famous actor.
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I do confess to being the exasperated, bossy, know-it-all, overachieving big sister.
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I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.
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In France, I found there is a lot of attention to the little details and to the quality of life.
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Facts from paper are not the same as facts from people. The reliability of the people giving you the facts is as important as the facts themselves.
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Survival can be summed up in three words - never give up. That's the heart of it really. Just keep trying.
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Decisions are never easy. If they were easy, they wouldn't be called decisions.
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Finding your place as an artist is the hardest thing. You come out of college with what feels like a Mickey Mouse degree that qualifies you for nothing in the real world.
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I'm going to do some consulting for nonprofits and arts agencies. These are areas I'm interested in that didn't come directly out of Harvard, but certainly I started looking at things in a different manner.
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Memories have huge staying power, but like dreams, they thrive in the dark, surviving for decades in the deep waters of our minds like shipwrecks on the sea bed.
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The thing that's worked for me is having as much of a connection to the material as possible. And sometimes the material requires a more straightforward approach, and sometimes it requires a little more silliness, you know?
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'The Princess Bride' is by far the most popular film I've ever done. I don't think I'll ever top it.
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To be a Bond girl you need courage, charm, determination and feistiness.
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It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.
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As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change - not when you want them to change. Even when it comes to processes they don't like, they're afraid of change.
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Without justice, the most heinous crimes go unpunished; victims are unable to obtain redress, and peace remains an elusive goal, since impunity generates more hatred, leading to acts of revenge and more suffering.
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
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'The Sound of Music' is set in 1938 in Austria at the time of the Anschluss.
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It's not just about the current economic environment. History shows that slashing budgets always leads to recession.
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I used to write exclusively with one particular Montblanc fountain pen, although lately I have had to use a roller-tip fountain pen, because I find it harder and harder to control the fine muscles of my right hand during prolonged periods of work. I buy boxes of Deluxe Uni-ball pens, use them until they start to drag, and then change.
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The sheer density of advertising creates a psychic mass, an overlay that can sometimes be very tense or aggressive. As a citizen, you have to participate in that every day. You have to walk by until it's changed.
