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 really have a great deal of humility in that department, and a great deal of respect for people who spend their lives learning how to make these amazing preparations.
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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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When I was small, I was the same as everyone else. I used to play in a small council estate nearby. But it's really my family who taught me. I started watching my dad play from the age of two. I wanted to be like him.
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Nature's God really descends from an ancient Greek tradition that was passed along to the early modern philosophers. And these were quite radical thinkers who were really challenging the ways of thinking of their time and the established religion.
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Do to others as you would have others do to you, inspires all men with that other maxim of natural goodness a great deal less perfect, but perhaps more useful: Do good to yourself with as little prejudice as you can to others.
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The whole brunt of the media and the government is to encourage people to be highly competitive and totally selfish and uncaring of others.
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Focusing isn't just an optical activity, it is also a mental one.
