James Turrell Quotes

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• I like to do everything you can possibly do before you go into rehearsal, because once we are in rehearsal or on the stage there will be a problem I didn't anticipate. It's really good to think we got it all nailed - of course you've never got it all nailed.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Good
  • Think
  • Problem

• The loss of life will be irreplaceable.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Life
  • Will
  • Loss

• I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.

  

  Veronica Roth
  • Up
  • True
  • Age

• For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Know

• I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Hate
  • Doing
  • Just

• It is so expensive to take care of my hair and keep it looking like I was born with it, when my real hair is the color of rat fur.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Real
  • Hair
  • Care

• We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Development
  • Forgive
  • Early

• My style is schizophrenic! One minute I'll be wearing bright girly dresses, and the next I'll be swinging towards more structured masculine things.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Style
  • Dresses
  • Girly

• Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Family
  • Strong

• I've had a hip replacement, I've beaten cancer, I had my hand operation, and I stopped drinking. Something inside of me just went, 'I'm done.'

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Me
  • Drinking
  • Stopped

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• As society diversifies, the number of people who read literature is decreasing. It will be difficult for readers to digest my ideas through literature.

  

  Cao Yu
  • People
  • Society
  • Ideas

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Single
  • Fans
  • Down

• We say that our objective is to conquer complete independence, to install a people's power, to construct a new society without exploitation, for the benefit of all those who feel themselves to be Mozambicans.

  

  Samora Machel
  • People
  • Power
  • Society

• The primary difference that I have found between the system of education in India and other countries, particularly the U.S., is that they focus on problem solving and relating theories to reality around them. These two things are lacking in the education system in India.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Reality
  • Education
  • Focus

• We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.

  

  Barry Unsworth
  • Trying
  • Truth
  • Man

• I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.

  

  Sam Wyly
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Starting at about, I guess, forever, I've always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn't wait to be 16 and get a driver's license.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Forever

• His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

  

  John Dryden
  • God

• I'll take lying in your arms tonight over and above any love I've known. Memories may find me, but they'll always be behind me. I'll take today over yesterday, anyday.

  

  Gary Allan
  • May
  • Today
  • Memories

• The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Free
  • Feeling
  • Light

• Seek Unity and you will find neither Unity nor Truth.Seek the light of truth, and you will find Unity and Truth.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Light
  • Unity

• Light itself is a revelation.

  

  James Turrell
  • Light