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 had polio when I was 13. I started feeling stiff, my joints ached, and over a two-week period I lost my coordination and 20 pounds.
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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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The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea. Quick little splinters of life, their little lives are fun to them in the sea.
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I've used drugs that I do consider to be dangerous, drugs that are potentially detrimental to kids and society at large.
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Military glory, - that attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood.
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Life in the ultimate analysis has taught me one enduring lesson. The subject should always disappear in the object.
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It is only when light is reduced that the pupil opens and feeling goes out of the eyes like touch.
