Frank Stella Quotes
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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I still love my little home on YouTube, really.
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Once you understand that listeners want to be challenged, then you also understand that you can't take shortcuts.
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I'm coming to the end of my life. I do reflect on what I've done for the 85 years that I have been given so far. And I'm proud of what I've done.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
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The minute you step off that podium is the minute you start preparing for the next world championship. That's kind of how I work. You celebrate for a brief moment, then you move on.
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For a number of years in England nobody had any idea what I looked like.
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I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.
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My mother pretty much raised me to be a free spirit. Anything my father would say, she would tell me, 'No, it's like this.'
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To resolve problems through negotiation is a very childish approach.
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Well, I'm about to do another western, a pilot for HBO this fall.
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I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.
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Music is a personal preference. Everyone's free to connect and like whatever they want.
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I can enjoy what I'm engaged in and be fully present rather than planning my answers to questions while someone else is speaking or thinking about my next appointment while my current engagement is still in in progress.
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Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging around.
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The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
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I don't know if I particularly want to be remembered for anything. I personally do not think I'm a great gift to the world. I've been very fortunate.
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Starting at 11, I was a movie-theater popcorn girl, a babysitter, a sales clerk - in the Midwest, they start them early!
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If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.
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The reader reads aloud, with a sing-song up … then down … then down again cadence. My mood shifts from merely reluctant to derisive. It’s a tired reading style. I’m sick of it. It attaches more importance to the words than the words themselves—as they’ve been arranged—could possibly sustain, and it gives poets and poetry a bad name.
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As you get older, you realise that your identity becomes more important - the environment in which you have grown is actually part of who you are just as much as your family or your school.
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Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.
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What you see is what you see.
