James Turrell Quotes
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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
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This experience has also humbled me by giving me a true understanding of what millions of others face each day in their own fight against cancer.
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Normally, most writers don't say, 'I'm going into a mild hypnotic trance.' Typically, they don't know how they do it. Most people, when they have a good experience writing, they're well placed in that state, which is also sometimes called a 'flow state.' If you don't have trouble, you don't have to think about it.
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I am a member of the Kiowa Gourd Dance Society; I visit sacred places such as Devil's Tower and the Medicine Wheel. These places are important to me, because they've been made sacred by sacrifice, by the investment of blood and experience and story.
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I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
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My family is a kaleidoscope... My family is like that. We're all different colors, like a prism. When we have light shine and stuff, we're beautiful. When it's dark, nothing shines, and it's a rock.
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I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience.
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A woman's experience is different from a man's in virtually every respect, including how she is treated by the media.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing to experience for himself what happened in Palestine.
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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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When you go to the movies with your whole family, it's a different experience. For some reason, it's something that you're all doing together and you take away something special in that.
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Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.
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Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay.
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Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
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People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.
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I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.
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I like to feel the same when I'm on stage and when I'm not.
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I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and at the moment I listen a lot to house music.
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The party now is having my kids laugh and my wife laugh and my teammates. I want them to see me have fun and put it in a different way.
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We use the vocabulary of light to describe a spiritual experience.
