James Rosenquist Quotes
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power over women!
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'
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When I was a kid, I wasn't looking at the small-budget films myself. I was looking at 'James Bond' and all the major films, so I still have that energy. I still love those films.
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Ladies and gentlemen, communism didn't fall. It was pushed.
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It's not what you achieve, it's what you overcome. That's what defines your career.
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It's not about the money with me.
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I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
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I was really close to being this guy who used to be in this band who is still playing and trying to get some recordings together, but I got really lucky.
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The greatest difficulty in conversion is to win the heart to God and after conversion to keep it with Him.
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Everything about it worked, and I don't mean just the movie, but in our experience, we realized there's also a component of luck involved in this business. We had absolutely the most competent people in the studio working on the release and ad campaign.
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To be international, you have to first be local. ... When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground, and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. And if it does, the fruit will not be as good as it was in its original place. This is a rule of nature. I think if I had left my country, I would be the same as the tree.
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I don't think London has been given enough credit in a lot of the movies that we make here.
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Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago.
