Joan Miro Quotes
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
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During the 2008 election, I made clear to the Obama campaign that I don't think it's wise for me to force my personal political agenda on anyone.
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We are paying the price for living longer, collecting degenerative diseases along the way. Cancer is only one. Others are heart and brain diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons.
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Our house is a constant mayhem of music, noise, socializing and business. It vibrates life, as a house should.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
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I've never been on a date.
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According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated and atrociously executed - that they're actually rather good.
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A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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I'm one of those weird people who doesn't even own a computer.
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For so long, it was just my secret. It burned inside me, and I felt like I was carrying something important, something that made me who I was and made me different from everybody else. I took it with me everywhere, and there was never a moment when I wasn't aware of it. It was like I was totally awake, like I could feel every nerve ending in my body. Sometimes my skin would almost hurt from the force of it, that's how strong it was. Like my whole body was buzzing or something. I felt almost, I don't know, noble, like a medieval knight or something, carrying this secret love around with me.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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It was the only thing I had to do. I worked to get rid of the time, even now I work for something to do. Painting is a wonderful way of getting rid of the days.
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I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
