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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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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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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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light.
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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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Rap music is amazing, it's beautiful. But the problem is the lyrics. The person who writes the lyrics - that's the problem.
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Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.
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There is stuff going on inside me. But I have always been told to go out there and pitch like you can't tell if you just struck somebody out or just gave up a home run. If something bad happens, I don't dwell on it. Just give me the ball and let me pitch.
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But only love can break your heartTry to be sure right from the startYes only love can break your heartWhat if your world should fall apart?
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I'm constantly investigating nature - nature, meaning everything.
