Frank Stella Quotes
The painting never changes once I've started to paint it. I work things out before-hand in the sketches.
Quotes to Explore
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.
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There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives; To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
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While religious tolerance is surely better than religious war, tolerance is not without its liabilities. Our fear of provoking religious hatred has rendered us incapable of criticizing ideas that are now patently absurd and increasingly maladaptive.
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I had more clothes than I had closets, more cars than garage space, but no money.
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TV feels quite constipated, and the thing I find particularly difficult is the branding of the channels where it's not 'Is it a good script?' but 'Is it a BBC2 script?'
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We couldn't pitch the show without having created one, at least one 20 to 25 minute version of 'Broad City.' We wouldn't know how to describe it.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I had to give myself permission to act, then others agreed.
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I drive a Nissan Versa and would never spend real money on a car because I destroy things.
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I don't have regrets I didn't spend more time with my family because I've lived my life to the full, and you can't look back in regret.
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Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it's the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some people don't like to call it that because they think it makes it sound too nice, when the reality is if you have manic-depression you have manic-depression.
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It's a new perspective where I got a role in and they are just spewed out of my mouth.
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I think everybody feels their pregnancy differently, and for me, I was so in work mode.
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The painting never changes once I've started to paint it. I work things out before-hand in the sketches.
