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 feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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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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I'm a real girly-girl.
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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 most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
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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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Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
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It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
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For instance, he says I let him play golf, and he says, he lets me be miserable in my job. Now - that doesn't quite sound right, does it? But nonetheless, I think for the first time in my life, I'm not going to be miserable in my life when I come and work at CNN.
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Working with Marilyn Monroe on The Misfits (1961) nearly gave me a heart attack. I have never been happier when a film ended.
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I have always wanted to become a musician and a singer.
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The artist sees the tragic to such a degree that he is compelled to express the non-tragic.
