Carl Andre Quotes
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When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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I am truly at my happiest not when I am writing an aria for an actor or making a grand political or social point. I am at my happiest when I've figured out a fun way for somebody to slip on a banana peel.
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I was raised by a family that there was no, 'You're a girl so you have a limited number of options.' In my community, that was never anything that happened.
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I do think that having the villain be a woman is just as feminine, because we're not just saying, 'Women are wonderful and made of marshmallows,' but women can be anything. They can be amazing superheroes, or they can be dastardly villains, and everything in between.
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I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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The subject matter is very tricky. It's about the Munich massacre and what Mossad did afterwards with the assassination squads. I think it's a turning point in history, especially for the Palestinians.
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It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.
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I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.
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My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.
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Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
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The truth of it is that every singer out there with songs on the radio is raising the next generation, so make your words count.
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China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.
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It is not altogether a bad thing to have criminal ancestors. An arsonist grandfather may bequeath one a nose for smelling smoke.
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I think I have a good deal of my Uncle Theodore in me, because I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on.
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French is a foreign language, but I've been speaking it since I was 18 so it's second nature to me.
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'Georgia' is very personal to me. 'Anniversary Party' was great. 'Anomalisa' is also another one that, particularly, is in my heart and will be forever. I do think it's a masterpiece; I really do.
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You can't raise the aspirations of a child and then leave them hanging. Poverty can't be solved by a project. It's solved by a relationship, collaboration.
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Becoming food savvy is one thing, but it's amazing how fast savvy turns to snooty, and snooty leaves you preparing three-hour meals that break your budget and that the kids won't even eat.
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Our Navy was very largely sunk. And we were at war in no time at all. I share, in retrospect, the distress we all share at the internment of the Japanese American citizens of the United States. It was not our finest hour. But the Supreme Court had it before it at the time, and justified it and upheld it.
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Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
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FORM = STRUCTURE = PLACE
