James Turrell Quotes
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I'm very silly as a person, but quality silliness on-screen has more of an art to it. Harrison Ford, whom I was in 'Morning Glory' with, has mastered that dry funny better than anyone.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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A teacher should have a creative mind.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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Pummeling an answer out of someone never works. You cannot intimidate someone with aggressive language and think they'll be more forthcoming... that's a caricature of interrogation, part of the TV culture of what it looks like.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Working with 50 Cent was great, you know what Im saying? It was just great to work with 50 Cent.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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The people, the ultimate governors, must have absolute freedom of, and therefore privacy of, their individual opinions and beliefs regardless of how suspect or strange they may appear to others. Ancillary to that principle is the conclusion that an individual must also have absolute privacy over whatever information he may generate in the course of testing his opinions and beliefs.
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I think that's my nature, to want to bring people together rather than to try to bombard them into agreement.
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Our foreparents were mostly brought from West Africa. We were brought to America and our foreparents were sold; white people bo ught them; white people changed their names my maiden name is supposed to be Townsend, but really, what is my maiden name? What is my name?
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The one thing a person wants in life is usually something basic that money can't buy.
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I want people to treasure light.
