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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It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
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People love to be swept off their feet, to go into an environment where they've never been, to experience things they only dream about. And filmmaking offers that potential.
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An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.
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I loved teaching. It was my world. I only left because I was overwhelmed with three careers - teaching, writing, and my family.
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In terms of goals for NASA before I die, we need to be living on Mars. And I might not live that long, so they better get on with it!
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I used to build up to sensation, accumulating tension until it released a perceptual experience.
