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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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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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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When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
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I took to the luge when I was very young, but I never imagined that it would become my passion. At 14, I was already competing on artificial tracks.
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I started thinking about the endless bullshit about quotas, and how certain types of character are fine "as long as it's important to the story," and so on, started thinking about the absence of the abject.
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If you look at the beginning of children's entertainment in literature, the first books that were written for kids were cautionary tales. They were books that were there to teach kids about growing up and how to live life.
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Landmines are different from other conventional weapons. When a war is over, the landmines stay in the ground and continue to kill - for decades.
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Religious suffering is at once the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of the heartless world, as it is the soul of soulless condition. It is the opium of the people.
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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.
