James Turrell Quotes
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Art should be an oasis: a place or refuge from the hardness of life.
Fernando Botero -
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.
Barbara Kruger -
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.
Joanne Rowling -
How are the cabs in your city? In Manhattan, where I work, they are rather awful.
Barry Ritholtz -
No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.
Harold Rosenberg -
I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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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!
Raney Aronson-Rath -
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.
Gary Johnson -
History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
Naguib Mahfouz -
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.
Daisy Donovan -
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.
Xavier Rudd -
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.
T. J. Miller
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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.
Cameron Diaz -
I've never seen hard work fail.
Zach LaVine -
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.
Gary Shteyngart -
I'm proud of my work and how far I've come, and I'm proud of the way that I did it.
Bebe Rexha -
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.
Rakul Preet Singh -
Filmmaking is a very privileged art form. It costs a lot of money to make these things.
Barry Jenkins
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I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.
Canelo Alvarez -
One of the accidental joys of my writing life has been that I've had some lovely, surprisingly good fortune with readers, and I've brought readers to my dad's work. I can't tell you the joy that gives me. Because my father's work was masterful.
Andre Dubus III -
I don't know what drives me. I need to work. I wanted to be in the entertainment field, but I didn't know what.
Frank Vincent -
We should purify our innate well of contentment - what a wonderful expression - and then external things will be in harmony with us.
Eckhart Tolle -
I can adapt to change easily, but I'm not a fan of it.
Ashley Wagner -
Art history is littered with work that involves light.
James Turrell