Carl Andre Quotes
I realized the wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way by carving it.
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
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We must first and foremost defend Hungary's independence and sovereignty, and, if needed, we must regain it.
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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star.
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I'm going to put music out when I feel like it's ready.
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When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.
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Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.
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When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental things, and some of the short stories in 'Bearded Ladies' are a little bit experimental.
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Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
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Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.
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I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
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I try to stay far away from anything creepy and supernatural. I'd rather not think about it.
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To me the interesting main character is never the one without flaws.
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As a young physician in the mid-'80s, caring for people who had contracted H.I.V., I lost two of my patients to suicide at a time when the virus was doing very little harm to them. I have always thought of them as having been killed by a metaphor, by the burden of secrecy and shame associated with the disease.
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If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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Even though I'm not a competitive athlete, I have to still maintain things and try to keep myself fit because I am at that age where I need to make sure to get those regular checkups and make sure everything is in tact.
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More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
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Moving out to L.A. for me was a leap of faith. I was very secure in my dinner theater world; I loved it, and I was just like, 'I think there's something else out there for me and I just have to go for it.'
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Оne word could change the whole world.
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Be undeniably good. When people ask me how do you make it in show business or whatever, what I always tell them & nobody ever takes note of it 'cause it's not the answer they wanted to hear-what they want to hear is here's how you get an agent, here's how you write a script, here's how you do this-but I always say, “Be so good they can't ignore you.” If somebody's thinking, “How can I be really good?” people are going to come to you. It's much easier doing it that way than going to cocktail parties.
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I shall be active and vigorous even from the tomb.
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I realized the wood was better before I cut it, than after. I did not improve it in any way by carving it.
