Sean Scully Quotes
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.
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The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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My father used to take me to the movies on Saturdays. In 1940, when I was four years old, we encountered 'Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe.' I loved it. Especially the rocket ship, which I later realized had no airlock and no washroom. But they managed to get to Mongo with it.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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My life changed completely. It's crazy now. It's kind of gone from striving and wondering and being confused and being lost to just feeling like the most blessed person in the world - just happy to wake up every day, happy to get on a plane every time. Just couldn't be happier with life, really.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a matter of minutes.
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I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.
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One of the pleasures of looking at the world through mathematical eyes is that you can see certain patterns that would otherwise be hidden.
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I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
