Donald Judd Quotes
At that second exhibition I had to peer into them and look through the grayed color and wonder what it would be like not gray and then wonder what the forms would be like not crabbed by the figures and trees.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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I used the diabetes as my weapon. Of course, I was only hurting myself and making myself sicker, but I guess it was something I had to go through. I never went overboard so much that I really hurt myself, but my early teenage years were very tough.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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No matter where I travel, I make sure to carry a Vaseline body lotion with me to keep my skin well moisturised all the time.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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Everyone wants to learn the same thing from painful situations: how to avoid repeating them.
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There are some good songs, but not the kind of song-writing that I remember, that I like. Springsteen still does it. Paul Simon, and there are also good writers, but that doesn't dominate the charts.
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To go back means defeat.
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Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
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Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.
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I don't go out and pick fights.
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Torture fails to make us safe, but it certainly makes us less free.
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A couple times a year, I get in the car, and I'll drive 1,000 miles cross-country, going through side streets. I'll stay off the highways as much as possible. And I realize it's a huge country, and for us to be in so many places in the country is an amazing thing.
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Our job is not to answer questions, its to ask the right questions...that get us to the right answer.
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At that second exhibition I had to peer into them and look through the grayed color and wonder what it would be like not gray and then wonder what the forms would be like not crabbed by the figures and trees.
