John Baldessari Quotes
I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
Quotes to Explore
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When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
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Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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We're here to win. We're not here just for the experience.
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When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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We can climb mountains with self-love.
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My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.
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For me retiring wasn't hard once I knew that that was the decision I was going to make.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.
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If you ask any of my kids today what their most important experience was in their education, they would say it was the travel and the ability to see and be in other cultures.
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I like being the lead but I like being in an ensemble. There are different challenges and dilemmas with both. If you're carrying a film, there's a certain weight, but there are a lot of scenes to explore the character. When you're in an ensemble, you have to convey the entire character in a limited number of scenes.
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Speaking of things that'll make your head explode, 'Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story' finally made it to the drive-in
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No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
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I could never figure out why photography and art had separate histories. So I decided to explore both.
