Bridget Riley Quotes
I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
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By and large my relations with the US were good.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I'm definitely a hair down girl. I'm a fan of the natural, earthy look.
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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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I don't prepare myself for a specific fighter. I don't choose a fight to prepare myself for another fighter.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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The reality is, if you were fortunate to be born to rich parents, you have a better chance of succeeding in life. And that's wrong.
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My capital budget maintains my commitment to the education of children, health of the Chesapeake Bay, and safety of all Maryland citizens. We will continue to focus on the five pillars of my Administration as we build today and look forward to the projects of the future.
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It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.
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There isn't one role I'd like to play. There are many and there are none. I've always admitted to being a prostitute. I sell myself for money. I don't have to see myelf up on the screen as Napoleon to feel satisfied about a movie. If you pay me a lot of money, I'll be in your film.
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They who humble themselves before knowledge of any kind generally end up the wiser and as voices with something meaningful to say.
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When I was coming of age, I remembered reading and studying the initial ideas within the feminist movement. There was this idea with my parents' generation that in order to find equality, a woman would need to behave like a man.
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I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.
