James Rosenquist Quotes
When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.
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There are hundreds of people running around with great voices. If they would study and develop them they could become great singers.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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It was very difficult when I was trying to figure out how to have a marriage and babies and do this at the same time. There was no handbook. You were making it up as you went along.
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Limitlessness is important for me; I want to be able to use every opportunity to push me forward onto the next thing.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.
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I had a Ford F-250. It was a big ol' farm truck, but it wasn't a rig. That's about the biggest I've ever driven. That's what I drove back and forth to high school. I was a poor guy, and it was a truck that my uncle owned and let me drive because I had no money.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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What is the future of the woman's movement? How in the hell do I know? I don't run it.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins.
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If a child plays sport early in childhood, and doesn't give it up, he will play sport for the rest of his life. And if children have a connection with, and are involved in the preparation of, the food they eat, then it will be normal for them to cook these kind of meals, and they will go on cooking them for the rest of their lives.
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Because of my crazy work schedule, I have become something of a master at changing my clothes while driving. The men driving next to me love it.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
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I used to be very into fitness and would happily pose for photos in my bikini. Now I look at those and think, 'Where did that body go?' But that was before children.
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I love reading Warren Buffett's letters, and I love contrasting his words with his actions. He's a very wise guy.
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We all have them, those parts of us that are the greatest parts of us and the worst parts of us. Sometimes we're put in circumstances and bad choices are made.
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When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
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I fought for a long time on 'Battlestar' to let my hair grow out. It was very frustrating because every single person on the show was changing their hair. It was not fair.
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When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.
