James Turrell Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
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No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
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I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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Would this country be better off if no one drank? Yes, it would be, but we tried that; it doesn't work. I don't want to tell anybody that they can't have as many drinks as they want every single night of the week as long as they don't get behind the wheel of a car.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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It takes time and energy, and if I'm working, then I'd rather flop in front of the telly than put on a tiny dress and work out how to get myself to God knows where. I mean, lazy some would call it.
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Playing live is everything. Sometimes being on the road is hard, and it's a lot of work, and tiring. From a musical point of view, you improve all the time. Not only that, but you learn how to deal with people and deal with energy in a live setting.
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I have a tough time with stand-up because I am an improviser. I can riff; I can do crowd work, so I don't prepare.
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I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
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I've never seen hard work fail.
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Without humor, I cannot go on and I doubt many of my readers would go on either. Humor is so important. I am here to have fun here with my work.
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I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.
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I'm open to all kind of scripts. As long as there's enough scope to perform, I'd take up the offer. In fact, before Yuvan and 'TT' happened, I got an opportunity to work with a top actor-director combination. But my height proved to be a setback.
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Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
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I'm not such an artist type that I can't handle the real world. I read the financial pages, because most people don't talk about art.
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I think obviously vaccinations work. Vaccination has worked for many, many years. I am sensitive to the fact that there are some families who disagree but the difficulty is if I have a kid who is suffering from an illness who is subjected to a kid who walks into a room without vaccines that could kill that child and that's wrong.
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How do you deal with a criminal that will not listen to what you have to say and who continues his policy of violence? Some say you continue to talk and let him tire himself out. But nearly 40 years after the institution of apartheid, is there anyone who still believes that verbal persuasion will work?
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Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
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By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent. – page 97.
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Art history is littered with work that involves light.
