Etel Adnan Quotes
My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.Etel Adnan
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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The scene that has raised the most objections in 'The Interview' is at the very end, when Kim's head dissolves into flames. To me, it feels gratuitous.
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I loved statistics from a young age. And I studied very much in Sweden. I used to be in the upper quarter of all courses I attended. But in St. John's, I was in the lower quarter. And the fact was that Indian students studied harder than we did in Sweden. They read the textbook twice, or three times or four times.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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I floated around in the department of biochemistry and learned some interesting things, and then I began to... I never wanted to work with a mentor because I always wanted to have my own reputation and be free to do what I wanted to do. So I worked with the weakest people in the department. Don't make that public.
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I am indebted to the Indian Army, from my birth till now; I have grown and imbibed the indomitable spirit of this fighting force.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
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I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood.
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There are a zillion variables to a hamburger. What part of the animal went into it. What coarseness. What temperature.
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I always said to myself that if I thought I slipped and could not be the player that I want to be, then it was time for me to go.
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I certainly want to continue to be a role model. But I don't think it's necessarily about being a female in our business. I think it's about... my track record, my results.
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I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.
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If you look where kids are spending time on the Net, they may have all the information in the world, but they're not accessing it.
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The digitization of our society is a challenge that is both legislative and philosophical.
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
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There is no progress toward ultimate freedom without transformation, and this is the key issue in all lives.
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It's nice to actually look done-up, because people see a different side of me, the more girly side. Obviously, I can't do that with cycling. I can't go with nice girly hair and full make-up.
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The most joyful part of writing, for me, is when I am 90% there, and suddenly the story clicks into place, and things finally start to make sense.
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My writing and my paintings do not have a direct connection in my mind. But I am sure they influence each other in the measure that everything we do is linked to whatever we are, which includes whatever we have done or are doing.
Etel Adnan
