James Rosenquist Quotes
I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
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I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
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In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
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Because North Korea was so totally cut off, we didn't hear anything of the outside world. We had only one TV channel, which showed only propaganda, and we believed everything.
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I've always had some level of having to be independent outside of music because the music wasn't a smooth ride. We lost a lot in the mix: Everybody that I came in the music game with - friends I brought in with me - are all doing 10-34 years in jail. That's why if you want to get the real, you gotta get it from me.
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Painting is just like making an after-dinner speech. If you want to be remembered, say one thing and stop.
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If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.
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I'm a great admirer of 'The Simpsons.' It's very surprising because it's backed by a right-wing television company in the U.S., and quite often it's poking fun at the people who would be its audience.
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I stick the collages on the wall and, if I still like them after a month or two, I make a painting.
