Mark Rothko Quotes
the first ingredient of his work.. is a clear preoccupation with death - intimations of mortality.
Mark Rothko
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't audition for 'SNL.' I sent in a tape to 'SNL' the year before I started writing there, but I got the job there through doing stand-up on Fallon.
Hannibal Buress
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
L. Neil Smith
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
Gary Cole
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
Florentijn Hofman
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When I was 18, I couldn't wait to move away. I was like: 'If I ever have to come back here, I'll kill myself.' Glasgow seemed like failure and death to me back then, but not any more.
Laura Fraser
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There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I think the reason 'Sexy Beast' was so good was it wasn't just another run-of-the-mill gangster film; it was a love story.
Ian McShane
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I almost always start with setting! I have to know the world before I know how to populate it. I have a tendency to play with doors - between life and death, human and monster, mundane and magic - and with 'ADSOM,' I knew I wanted to play with the physical doors between worlds.
V. E. Schwab
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
Yann Tiersen
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I was amazed to realize that for many Westerners, Scheherezade was considered a lovely but simple-minded entertainer, someone who relates innocuous tales and dresses fabulously. In our part of the world, Scheherezade is perceived as a courageous heroine and is one of our rare female mythological figures.
Fatema Mernissi
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Violence only perpetrates more violence, and it becomes a vicious cycle. There are political situations all over the world where there are untold acts of revenge for incidences, and thousands and thousands of lives are lost because of them.
Mandy Patinkin
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I grew up in Chicago, but when I was 12, I came to New York because I was doing an episode of 'Law & Order.'
Keke Palmer
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There's this sort of model that exists in Nashville that we think we have to abide by: You put out a record, and in two years you have to put out another one and have three or four singles. There are all these rules that I've just sort of thrown out the window.
Sam Hunt
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As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.
Brian K. Vaughan
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
Zach Anner
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In my second year in Los Angeles, when I was eighteen, I wasn't getting any bookings, so I stopped going out, stopped partying. It was a matter of getting to the work. I had to focus.
Ashley Greene
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the first ingredient of his work.. is a clear preoccupation with death - intimations of mortality.
Mark Rothko
