Frank Stella Quotes
I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
Quotes to Explore
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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Now at 47, 48 I am expected to do ten times better work that I did when I was 24.
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I thought I was going to retire at 20, and I was going to be a surgeon.
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'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
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I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
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I have no literary fears.
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I write poems for children to help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world and to look at their lives from the inside out. I write humorous poems to tickle the funny bone of their imaginations.
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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones.
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The more clear your vision of health, happiness and prosperity, the faster you move toward it and the faster it moves toward you.
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I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.
