Etel Adnan Quotes
Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?Etel Adnan
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My whole reason for creating a network is literally to bring little pieces of light. It's to continue to spread little pieces of light in the world, to illuminate the possibility of the human spirit.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
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The real beauty of it - key to my life was playing key chords on a banjo. For somebody else it may be a golf club that mom and dad put in their hands or a baseball or ballet lessons. Real gift to give to me and put it in writing.
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There's some freedom that you get with indie films that you don't get with the big-budget ones. There's just a different style. I hope I can switch back and forth for the rest of my career, but I've kind of grown up on indies, and there's nothing better than working with these directors so closely and and being such a huge part of the process.
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We started playing 'Free Bird' in clubs, and initially, it was just a slow ballad.
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I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.
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I went from elementary school to proper training, operatic training, and I went on to the Motown University and learned a lot of things from some wonderful people.
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Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.
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You cannot change strategy due to a trend.
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My mother totally protected me as a model. She took me on every look-see, she was there on the set if I wanted her to be.
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I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.
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I hate ready-made suits, button-down collars, and sports shirts.
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We're all funny. Humor unites us.
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I feel happy when I look at my grandson, who is 10 months old. That relaxes me.
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Serendipity always rewards the prepared.
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Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.
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We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.
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Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good.
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You never know when you'll have a bad idea for a worse joke.
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First I will make different color tests: I will study the dark – deep blue, deep violet, deep dirty green, etc. Often I see the colors before my eyes. Sometimes I imitate with my lips the deep sounds of the trumpet – then I see various deep mixtures which the word is uncapable od conceiving and which the palette can only feebly reproduce.
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Once I put down a color, I never cover it up. If you are born a musician, why become a banker?
Etel Adnan
