Mark Rothko Quotes
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
Quotes to Explore
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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I'm not saying I'm a paragon of virtue, but it's hard for me not to be honorable.
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The fireworks begin today. Each diploma is a lighted match. Each one of you is a fuse.
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I want to be promoted in the urban areas. A lot of African-American people should know more about me.
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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I guess I'm in a state of becoming. Even though I've had a full career and I've been around a long time, it's like dinosaurs are coming back. It's all new. I'm having to be on my own and seeing how exciting life can be now.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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Mel Gibson is losing it. I don't know how people still supporting this dude's movies like it's all good. That dude is nuts. All you gotta do is shut him down and don't support any of his movies.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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It's all about exploring the more unpredictable aspects in the character, not just fighting people.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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I'd seen 'Punky Brewster,' I'd seen 'Webster,' I saw 'Annie,' and it was time to either be an orphan or an actress.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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People change, they grow.
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I guess every generation is doomed to fight its war...suffer the loss of the same old illusions, and learn the same old lessons on its own.
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Our long-term prosperity depends critically on the ability of world leaders to make politically difficult decisions at a time when the global economy is still vulnerable on so many fronts.
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If you go to an ATM for a hundred dollars and it keeps spitting twenties, when would you walk away? When it wasn't spitting twenties no more. As long as you can take the money out, you'd stay there. That's what the wrestling business is like.
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The Iraqi Free Press, which did not exist 18 months ago because there was no such thing as the Iraqi Free Press, broke a story about the U.N. Oil-for-Food scandal, which could potentially turn out to be the largest scandal in history.
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It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism.
