Janet Echelman Quotes
In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.
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You can show me some stick ice cream and I can tell you if it's good or not just looking at it.
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
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Say there are three identical-looking pizza joints on a street. Two of those will always be empty. The third will have a line of people patiently waiting, checking their phones. There's always one place that's the place. That's how it works.
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My mom and I are very close.
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Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
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This kind of day Has no night Ain't got much on my mind Ain't got much on my mind 'Cause I know Something good this way comes.
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The more worrying feature of the new global corporate structures is their capacity to devastate national labour markets by transferring their operations to cheaper locations overseas.
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People like hearing songs that sound like something they've heard before, that's reminiscent of their childhood and of what their parents listened to.
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In New York, FEMA granted the Mamaroneck Beach & Yacht Club's request to be remapped from the high-risk flood zone in August 2012 - just two months before the club was damaged and its outbuildings destroyed by Hurricane Sandy, which stacked up yachts at its docks like pick-up sticks.
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In my regular life, I am very involved in commissions for cities and sometimes countries. And I think of public art as a team sport. The outcome is only possible with the interaction of all the players.
