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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Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
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My job was to get a fair and open hearing to all ideas.
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I haven't been in a store to buy anything for five years.
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I'm really inspired by stories I didn't know about.
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I always thought on my own that what is a huge part of being an actor, or what made me a better actor, was just really living life. Not being closed in on life, but being more open to experiences and to people and taking risks and exposing yourself to things.
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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.
