Bridget Riley Quotes
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If you fall off a horse, you get back up. I am not a quitter.
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Even if you didn't lose your job, if you're one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don't have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you've earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I use debit cards for everyday purchases, as I don't believe in credit cards. But this has caused problems, especially with American touring, because I refuse to have a credit card - and in America you can't pay for anything on a debit card.
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Aphorisms are the true form of the universal philosophy.
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I'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view or my take on things that everyone can laugh at.
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Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.
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I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come with a rigid ideology in my heart - or a soul that tells me to go it alone. I do not come to uproot tradition - or to be imprisoned by it.
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While apartheid was in operation, the set-up was a gift for writers if you were looking for a big theme.
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I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.
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I work with Ninja, Ninja works with me.
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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Luke's iron crown, and Damien's bed of steel.
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A true friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be anywhere else.
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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.
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A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
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Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn, The love of love.
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Most Christian 'believers' tend to echo the cultural prejudices and worldviews of the dominant group in their country, with only a minority revealing any real transformation of attitudes or consciousness. It has been true of slavery and racism, classism and consumerism and issues of immigration and health care for the poor.
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The startled terror of remorse that dares not think of what it fears, is as inconsistent as all other human feelings.
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There are only so many movies you can direct. And yet there are movies that I want to make sure make it to the screen in as honest a way as possible.
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Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
