Ellsworth Kelly Quotes
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.
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I never know what is going to have that 'X' factor and what isn't.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Seeing myself on the screen makes me cringe. I understand that I am that way - pouty.
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It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.
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People think that, when you're doing comedy, nothing means anything, that people run around and act crazy. It's quite the opposite. The stakes are life-and-death.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
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You're not allowed to write about me if you haven't seen 'The Shawshank Redemption.' See it and then get back to me.
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I hate birthdays.
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We want to support Nashville, support the community there and be a part of it.
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I had an idea of what I thought was funny. It's kind of based on how I am.
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Woman possesses the cosmic force of an element, an invincible force of destruction, like nature's. She is, in herself alone, all nature! Being the matrix of life, she is by that very fact the matrix of death - since it is from death that life is perpetually reborn, and since to annihilate death would be to kill life at its only fertile source.
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Everything in my life really filters down to the music.
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I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do. I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking. If I'm going to do this, sacrifice time with family and friends, sacrifice resources, I need to think carefully about what I going to say and how I'm going to say it.
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Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.
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I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.