Sean Lennon Quotes
I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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We must differentiate between guilt and duty. The soldier on the front, like the common man, who does his duty everywhere, should not be held responsible for the actions of a few who also called themselves Germans.
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My involvement with Guantanamo began as vice chief of staff.
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I like the idea of taking a true classic written by a true genius and destroying it essentially! I like the idea of bringing it down to earth a bit - and even a bit lower than that.
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Love to me has meant different things at different junctures of my life. I'm not a hopeless romantic.
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I like 'Bewitched' off the first album because it's one of the happiest songs I've ever written and, as any writer will tell you, happy songs are a million times more difficult to write than sad songs.
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It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
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For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
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If Christ can die in a barn, I think the death of a human in a van is not so bad.
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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
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I'm a Nintendo geek, so I'm a pretty big Nintendo fan.
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Some deeper part of me wants to write comical dialogue; I'd be foolish to not follow that impulse. Now I recognize that if there's energy to a section of work, you go where the energy is. It's a living thing, and you just follow it.
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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the entire work. That's the only difference, and it lies in the commitment of the writer. A novelist can do anything he wants so long as he makes people believe in it.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
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Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.
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An unguarded strength is a double weakness.
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I have long been convinced that the Christian Eucharist is but a continuation of the Eleusinian mysteries. St Paul, in using the word teleiois, almost confirms this.
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I spend my time trying to figure art out. I was brought up to believe that the way one processes information is by making it into art. That's how I live my life.
