James Turrell Quotes
It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is a beautiful feeling.
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My singing is part of me, like my stoutness, or my light hair, or my poor eyesight.
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You have another little drink, and I'll have another little drink, and maybe we can work up some real family feeling here.
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I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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I must've been a bird in some previous lifetime. I feel like I'm called to flying - the convenience and the beauty of it. That feeling of soaring would be empowering.
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One of my main weaknesses is a good movie. I'll just bawl my eyes out.
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody else knew stuff that I didn't know.
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I feel like I've grown up on screen quite a lot.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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I say it with my tongue firmly planted in cheek but there's truth to it - being a comedian is very close to being a therapist. When you're working smaller clubs, you're listening. You're feeling an energy, you're going with a tone but when people start yelling out, you almost start a conversation with people.
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When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
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Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness.
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There are days I'm feeling lazy, and my mom will remind me, 'Beyonce also only has 24 hours during the day.' That always keeps me going.
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The symbol of all art is the Prism. The goal is unrealism. The method is destructive. To break up the white light of objective realism, into the secret glories which it contains.
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There is no greater gift you can give or receive than to honor your calling. It's why you were born. And how you become most truly alive.
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Going was easy. Keep on going was hard.
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There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
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It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.
