Eva Hesse Quotes
Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.
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It is not possible, given any degree of optimism and generosity in regard to people in general, to set a time limit on creative reflection or a limitation on the number of people involved in the creation.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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'Mad' is a term we use to describe a man who is obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.
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Health care should be affordable for everyone.
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Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
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My mother was always supportive.
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I've actually done events at radio stations where I feel like I've had to give a little talk in behalf of television as a medium.
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But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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I've always found it embarrassing to receive awards.
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No one ever bugged Jack Nicholson. When we made 'Witches,' and people were standing around to see him, he'd just come out and say, 'Hi everybody!' I was lucky enough to go with him to a Lakers game, too, and he was always friendly. No one bothers Jack, because he makes himself so accessible.
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I want to play Lena Horne because I've always been fascinated with her. Her talent was astounding and more than that, her life story is incredible.
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I am so inspired by new media.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
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Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out.
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I always had an awful lot going on in my head, always telling myself stories, very vivid imagination.
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Art and work and art and life are very connected and my whole life has been absurd. There isn't a thing in my life that has happened that hasn't been extreme - personal health, family, economic situations...absurdity is the key word.
