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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I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
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In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland Dutch 17th century painters
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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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I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.
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The thing is, work is the thing I love the most.
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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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I would daydream about what it would be like to be an actor. I would even do talk shows where I interviewed myself.
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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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My parents taught me never to judge others based on whom they love, what color their skin is, or their religion.
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If you are wearing the right jersey, people rallying in around you, and hugging each other when you win, and there's so much love and excitement when you're together. And then people seem to walk away, take their jerseys off, and start focusing on the color of your skin. It didn't matter for that couple hours at the game - why does it matter now?
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I don't do much research on the Internet.
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Good intentions are useless until they are expressed in appropriate action!
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Nobody needs to be taken to Hell to experience it. We just grow despair inside the soul until it becomes a world in and around a human.
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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
