Janet Echelman Quotes
In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Poetry brings all possible experience to the same degree: a degree in the consciousness beyond which the consciousness itself cannot go.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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We Americans, who invented traffic, are always being startled by the forms into which it has evolved around the world.
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As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.
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My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.
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My parents wanted us to be well-rounded individuals and really have the American experiences as richly as one can.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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I hope she misses the cut. She doesn't belong here.
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It's important to have masculine energy around your child.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.
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I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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The more you are a victim of contradictory impulses, the less you know which to yield to. To lack character - precisely that and nothing more.
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Californians try everything once.
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I would not drink bottles of water at my mom's house because I never knew how long she'd been refilling them from the sink and putting them back in the refrigerator.
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If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
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In Portugal, my sculpture 'She Changes' refers to the town's fishing history, to the era of seafaring trade and discovery. The contemporary site is industrial, surrounded by red and white striped smokestacks, which is mirrored in the pattern of the sculpture.
