Martin Puryear Quotes
I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.
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I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
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I'm not into the whole showbiz scene.
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It's the comedy that guides me. The acting and all that stuff comes second. It's equally important, but I just try to do that as best as I can.
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I think there is a degree of speculation that is satisfied the climate is changing.
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Doing business and doing good are not mutually exclusive, and it is our responsibility to prove this every day anew.
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I used to write a monthly column for the 'New York Times' syndicate. But I stopped because I found it really hard to have one extreme opinion a month. I don't know how these columnists have two or three ideas a week; I was having difficulty having 12 things to say a year.
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There's a lot of craft that goes into achieving a hit song - at the beginning of your career, you're usually more inspiration than craft, and you get great when those intersect. A skilled songwriter can get you to that intersection.
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My pledge is to be part of the solution to focus on governing, to put my experience to work to help solve the very serious issues we're facing in this country.
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I love singing. I love singing at home.
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I cannot imagine myself fitting into the existing curriculum. I am too self-willed for that and have had my own very definite ideas for a long time, very different from the existing ways, as to how architecture is to be taught.
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Donald Trump has done a lot of horrible things on Twitter. From emboldening white supremacists to promoting violence against journalists, his tweets damage the country and put people in harm's way.
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A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.
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Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
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When I was in high school, I had a gambling problem.
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You can't put yourself into competition with a magazine like 'Vogue.' You have to create something new, something different.
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In advertising, you have a small window to say the most you can. That's what songwriting is. The difference is, you get to put the leaves on the trees and colour 'em in.
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Taking responsibility gives me a sense of control.
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Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms.
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My mom has always said that if I get a big head, she'll take me out of this business as quickly as I got into it.
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What I like about a dog it stops people getting after you, they're not going to come round in the night. But they make the place stink because I might want to stay out a few days and when I get back I might want to stay in a few days and a dog can become a tyrant to you.
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I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.
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Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.
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I felt it was part of the spirit of the whole program to do more than simply make an object.
