Piet Mondrian Quotes
The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.
Quotes to Explore
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I love heavy music. I keep Flume nice and melodic, so I save the angry, testosterone-fueled heavy stuff for What So Not. I think it's a good defining thing for the two projects.
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I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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I like to be against the odds.
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If I went in to pitch this show to a network, I would be laughed out of the room.
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Whatever you see - any good results - are all from the pressure.
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My parents had some problems of their own that put me in a position of having to deal with very grown-up stuff at a very young age. I needed some help with that, therapy-wise.
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I don't have a very quick sense of humor.
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In my opinion, faith helps in many contexts.
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I recognized that I needed to re-train my brain to stop eating like I wanted to punish myself or punish someone else. I needed to re-learn how to eat like I loved myself, and want to nourish and support myself.
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There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
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In the past, if you did film, you couldn't do stage, and if you did film, you certainly didn't do television. You had to pick what you wanted to be. Now it seems like we can bounce around, not only between genres, but between mediums, and I like that. I like change and I like a good story.
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I think the rest of the world has a very wide, very slow kick. It's very simple, breaststroke. People think it's highly technical. But the more narrow, more effective and quicker you can execute it, the faster you are going to go. There's less drag, basically.
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I think many people are terribly afraid of being demoted by the Darwinian scheme from the role of authors and creators in their own right into being just places where things happen in the universe.
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I'm just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven't played a lot.
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The fact is that our business is fundamentally really strong. We have a platform and a depth that no one in the tech industry has. This means we have competitors at every layer.
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I never should have made it. It was stupid.
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When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence.
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I'm interested in history, in trying to relate the past to the present and to understand how people thought about their problems and pleasures.
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I find it remarkable. It's surreal for me that I've gotten to work with so many people who are not only great filmmakers but whose films have had such a direct effect on me.
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When I was about seven, one or two people encouraged me, and art became an enormous and important refuge. By adolescence, I was absolutely passionate about it and felt those paintings and those painters, whether they lived a few hundred years ago or were still alive, were somehow my companions.
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Write. Remember, people may keep you (or me) from being a published author but no one can stop you from being a writer. All you have to do is write. And keep writing. While you’re working at a career, while you’re raising children, while you’re trout fishing--keep writing! No one can stop you but you.
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The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.
