James Turrell Quotes
I don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
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The last episode of Dallas was in '1991.' Unfortunately, it was a terrible episode to end the show on: it was a sort of 'It's a Wonderful Life' with Larry as the Jimmy Stewart character. In that episode, I was an ineffectual-schlep kind of brother, who got divorced three or four times and was a Las Vegas reject.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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When you talk about the American League, you think of Fenway. When you talk about the National League, you think of Wrigley and the fan base that they have in Chicago.
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Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
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There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.
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The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.
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When you have more people investing in VR games, whether it's us or Sony or someone else, that means a greater pool of VR developers out there who know how to make VR games.
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I think the more experience I have working on films, the more I can shed that character rather than carrying around that heavy weight.
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From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
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I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.
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The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
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Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.
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Having been connected with industry during my entire life, it seems eminently proper that I should turn back, in part, the proceeds of that activity with the hope of promoting a broader as well as a better understanding of the economic principles and national policies which have characterized American enterprise down through the years.
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I don't really enjoy being the center of attention; I find it hard.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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There is no gilding of setting sun or glamor of poetry to light up the ferocious and endless toil of the farmers' wives.
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I don't want you looking at the light fixture; I want you looking at where light goes. But more than that, I'm interested in the effect of light upon you and your perceptions.
