Ellsworth Kelly Quotes
Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self. And the arbitrariness of the constraint serves only to obtain precision of execution.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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My father was a diplomat for part of his life and I jumped from country to country and culture to culture.
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
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Historians tell us that a gentleman named John Ball once captured eight British Amateur titles.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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I don't think films about elderly people have been made very much.
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Sometimes I feel that the people I'm writing are more real to me than the people around me. When you take that imaginative leap, you're living so much in that world.
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I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
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To get Xi Jinping to help with our Pyongyang problem, Trump has dropped all talk of befriending Taiwan, backed off Tillerson's warning to Beijing to vacate its fortified reefs in the South China Sea, and held out promises of major concessions to Beijing in future trade deals.
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There are stories I'd like to tell, I'd like to see, and they're not getting made. These stories are beyond the experience of the people in power. They don't understand it, so they're frightened of it.
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People have always told me I look young for my age... and I think it's because I've always taken care of myself.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.
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Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.
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I think it's a mistake to try and overthink how you are going to be received, because that assumes that you are going to be received in the first place.
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Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.
