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 was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.
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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've got to literally write my own ticket.
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The best math lesson we can teach college students this year is to subtract a tuition increase and benefit from the dividends of higher education.
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The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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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.
