James Turrell Quotes
From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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Funny is an attitude.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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I've always found that no matter how much you spend on a movie - you can spend sixty dollars or sixty million dollars - if the movie's good, it's good.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I don't know that Islam has ever been a subject of anything that I've written. I think Muslims have often been, but those are two very different things.
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I really like to experiment. That's the only way I can work. It's instinctive.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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It is not often that idealism of student days finds adequate opportunity for expression in the later life of manhood.
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.
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Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
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The Democratic policy is any abortion, any time, for any reason at any point in a woman's pregnancy, right up until the last minute, to be paid by taxpayers. Barbara Boxer described this policy as, 'It's not a life until it leaves the hospital.'
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There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt.
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I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
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I rise today to commemorate one of the most fateful days in the history of the State of Colorado, the day the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant outside of Boulder nearly became America's own Chernobyl, some 30 years before that terrible accident in the Ukraine.
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My whole life, I've sung and listened to music, and since the beginning, I've had iTunes and used Apple Music for streaming.
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Conservatives have woken up to the fact they weren`t part of their team and they have a capability of having the kind of message that Donald Trump is delivering reach them on a very direct and very personal level so that they sign up. They are willing to go out there and work for him.
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From the very beginning, I was very interested just in light, and art seemed to be a way to work with it.
