Jackson Pollock Quotes
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I'm not good with catty girls. I'm too laid-back.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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I was at art school that had quite a celebrated film course as well. I tried for that film course when I was 18, but they said I was too young. I tried this audio and visual design course instead. Two years later, I reapplied for that higher course, but they said I was still too young and to try in five years.
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I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it's all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
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Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.
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My dad was a football player - a soccer player - for Manchester United, and I loved playing football, but I also happened to be the guy in class who was pretty good at sight reading. My teacher gave me scripts, and I was very comfortable.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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I'd rather have one good scene in a movie by a great director than a small role in a mediocre movie.
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Normally when I look at stuff, I try to look at the good things. When I watch video, I try to watch the good starts so I can see how my mechanics are in those.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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I work in the film business, where schmoozing is an art form, lunch hour lasts from 12:30 until 3, and every meeting takes an hour whether there's an hour's worth of business or not.
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A good school teaches you resilience - that ability to bounce back.
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As you get older, you overthink and can talk yourself out of anything. It's good to be a bit reckless and experimental.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
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You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
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People thought this was a good thing. We would no longer have to look at all those hostile faces, endure those hate-filled stares. No more fear. No more anguish. We would live entirely among Jews, among brothers...
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There's an ongoing 'water, water everywhere, and not a drop to drink' situation at my house in terms of both pens and paper.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.
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I had a talent for scoring films. I just developed it.
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Every good painter paints what he is.
