Janet Echelman Quotes
I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.
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Sure, 'Les Miserables' can be melodramatic. And seeing the musical instead of reading the novel will save you some time and spare you the long part where Hugo goes on and on about the Parisian sewer system. But I would hate for the novel to lose that.
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I'm very open-minded.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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I could have taken the easy life and just done classical, but I felt very strongly about the album, my first pop album, the first time that I'd fused so many influences. I was very proud when it was in the charts in 25 countries at once.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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Hinduism has an enormous capacity to absorb from outside influences and accept it in a peaceful and steady manner without perturbing the system.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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In order to maintain that fire for acting and capture its essence, you can't let yourself be concerned with what people have to say about you. You just can't.
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I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.
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I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
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Like anybody, you have moments when you question yourself and you're insecure.
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I spend a lot of my time looking into people's bags and handbags - with their permission, of course.
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As artists, when you have people that care about what you do, I think you should care about those people who care about what you do, and give them really cool interactive experiences to make them feel appreciated.
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I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
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I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.
