Carl Andre Quotes
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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I'm not denying that it's exciting to have a play on Broadway.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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I remember doing one of those computer careers tests. It told me I'd make an ideal HGV lorry driver because I've got 100 per cent spatial awareness. I'd be able to back them into tight parking spots.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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The comic edge of 'Ghostbusters' will always be the same. It's still treating the supernatural with a totally mundane sensibility.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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With any kind of mean girl, or anyone who bullies anyone, there's always a reason for it. There is that sadness in them or insecurity that makes them feel like they need to act out or hurt other people.
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The State idea is not according to my heart. I cannot understand why it is needed. It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles. I believe it is bad. I have always been against it.
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I think you create your own hipness.
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Immigration, of course, in New Hampshire is - it's not something that you see every day. It's not like talking about it in Texas, where people have a much more explicit sense of it.
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In the dining room, next to my collection of colorful papier-mache Mardi Gras float art, hang draperies made of the New Orleans toile fabric that I designed pre-Katrina for Hazelnut.
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A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
