Elizabeth Peyton Quotes
There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
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There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I don't like to practice; I like spontaneity. When I don't play guitar for a week and I pick it up again, I play better.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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Just as we might take Darwin as an example of the normal extraverted thinking type, the normal introverted thinking type could be represented by Kant. The one speaks with facts, the other relies on the subjective factor. Darwin ranges over the wide field of objective reality, Kant restricts himself to a critique of knowledge.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Chicago is one city. We shall work as one people for our common good and our common goals.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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The idea that modernisation makes for enhanced national power and rapid progress and helps everyone achieve greater happiness has its origins in the astonishing political, economic and military successes of western Europe in the 19th century.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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I am not from a film family or a Mumbai girl. The probability of getting a second chance is low, and so one has to be more careful.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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Just because no one can understand how you speak, Don't necessarily mean that what you be sayin is deep.
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We have this really retro vibe and style of songwriting and, personally, I wasn't embracing the current state of music until I fell in love with hip-hop. It felt good to suddenly embrace where music was headed, and I think hip-hop is the best at that, because it feels so progressive and everybody wants to be the best.
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Music in itself carries a whole set of messages which are very, very rich and complex, and the words either serve to exclude certain ones or point up certain others.
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It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.
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I just don't care that much about the band name. I'm not so precious about it. The Harpoons were different people, but The Boy-Friends were and are the same people as The Visions. I changed it to The Visions when we made 'Transangelic Exodus' because I guess we didn't feel so friendly and boyish anymore.
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There's something in music that fascinates me - how it communicates emotion so immediately. That's something I wanted in my paintings.
