Jean Dubuffet Quotes
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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Sharing is the essence of social media.
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My job in this life is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. In my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. If they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
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I tell you, in this world, being a little crazy helps to keep you sane.
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If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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I knew I would get offers to play the villain after 'Kick,' and I had already decided to reject all of them.
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A feminist is a person who believes in the power of women just as much as they believe in the power of anyone else. It's equality, it's fairness, and I think it's a great thing to be a part of.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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I like that Barack got that job.
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I don't even listen to hip-hop anymore. All my friends are white and over 40.
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Films, fiction, can encompass a whole global vision on a particular subject with any story, whatever it is. You can play the story in whatever country with whatever language in whatever style you want to tell the story in.
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The first songs I learned was 'Crazy' by Patsy Cline and 'At Last' by Etta James. I had been growing up with the Beatles, Pink Floyd, great bands.
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I've learned that universal acceptance and appreciation is just an unrealistic goal.
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What is enthusiasm but a passionate belief in what seems to be a high and holy aim - an unselfish devotion to some noble cause - a consecration of heart and mind and soul to the attainment of a great object?
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There is an element of mystique to radio, and I often listen to cricket commentary on radio, especially when one is stuck in a traffic jam.
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I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in the stories we tell each other. Yet it's relevant to our lives and to our worlds, in a practical way. Congo supplies raw materials for the things that we use on a daily basis. We are intimately linked to Congo, economically. We're linked to it through human events that are occurring there, that affect all of us, and yet you don't find narratives of Congo present in our lives.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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You know, I don't think any mother aims to be a single mom. I didn't wish for that, but it happened.
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I don't sit around and study the pages of a script over and over again.
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For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
