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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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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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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There's nothing more superficial to do than to paint a beautiful woman. The most beautiful portraits in art were of ugly women. If you paint Brigitte Bardot, it's a disaster. Sunsets, you have to stay away from sunsets. You paint a sunset, you are in great danger.
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The major thing is to view biology as an information science.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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I can get my voicemail transcribed and sent to me as e-mail. I want to be able to have my address book and all my life come up on my TV and video chat. The whole telecommunications experience through a wire is still very relevant.
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Having done so many versions, I never felt like an artist in 'Swan Lake.'
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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.
