Piet Mondrian Quotes
To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
Quotes to Explore
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Toronto Film Festival is one of those festivals where there are 400 movies, and unless you have a distributor who is super confident and puts a lot of money into it, sometimes movies can go unwatched or unnoticed.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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Only a few good leaders have paused to reflect seriously on being leaders.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
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I had the feeling that focusing on objects and telling a story through them would make my protagonists different from those in Western novels - more real, more quintessentially of Istanbul.
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It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international law to regime change in a non-transparent way. It was an error for which we as a country paid a heavy price, and for which many people paid with their lives.
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Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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Thinking can only serve to measure out the helplessness of thought.
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We're real fortunate to have such a unique cast.
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Kissing in the movies is a real art - figuring out where to put your heads so it looks good on camera. I have had other co-stars who couldn't work that out, which made it a lot harder for me.
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I went around in my teens and early 20s thinking that life was a con trick. I had managed to grow up believing in all sorts of romantic ideas about hard work and justice and truth, and it seemed the real world was much more complicated and shaded than I wanted to believe.
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I care about people. In the end, I think they feel it. It comes across, regardless of the character I'm portraying.
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To move the picture into our surroundings and give it real existence has been my ideal since I came to abstract painting.
