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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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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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 meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.
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Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.
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To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour.
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The entire NBA knew in 2010 that the best player in the world could be a free agent in 2014. We weren't the only team positioning ourselves for the summer of 2014.
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Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
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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.
