Bridget Riley Quotes
As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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There are so many devices that can receive video, creating complexities, because suddenly you can have a TV, laptop, smartphone, pads. And they are of different sizes. It's clear that you need to standardise and get a much more efficient TV delivery.
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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You can't do every movie - although I do a lot of them - and the thing I'm longing to do is... it's not that I think I'm funny... but I long to do a situation comedy.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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It is important to note that there are no age limitations on who can donate organs and tissue. Newborns as well as senior citizens have been organ donors.
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I never say no to an ice cream.
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In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.
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I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.
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So often is the virgin sheet of paper more real than what one has to say, and so often one regrets having marred it.
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It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
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The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has been in existence for most of this century.
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When I've gone back to work, it's always with that sense of inevitability. That may be a complete delusion, but it's the one that I need to get out of bed and go about my business. That sense that I can't avoid this thing. I better just get on with it.
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These modern productions are all very well, But there's nothing to equal, from what I hear tell, That moment of mystery When I made history As Firefrorefiddle, the Fiend of the Fell.
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I speak pretty fluent American, though I do so with a strong British accent, and I love America: The scale and the variety of it are astonishing to someone not born there, and I'm convinced that its energy and generosity have somehow rubbed off on me and affected my writing. For the better.
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We're gonna get some time to sit down individually with each player and see what their role is.
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We are excellent at launching Tomahawk missiles; we need to get better at launching ideas.
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If you turned into a wolf, there's no reason why you'd become evil and start eating people, is there? You'd just be a wolf, run around, try to catch rabbits or something.
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As the artist picks his way along, rejecting and accepting as he goes, certain patterns of enquiry emerge.
