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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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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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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My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me on the ice.
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It depends on how it is done but what we are drifting into, which is that people grow up without any sense of a spiritual dimension to life, is just impoverishing.
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People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
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I'm in the process of convincing my parents to sell me their house so I can just live in my childhood bedroom forever. I figure it might make me age slower.
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I want people to treasure light.
