Abe Ajay Quotes

By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

Abe Ajay

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• When the Taiwan Relations Act passed in 1979, our biggest concern was preventing the use of military force against Taiwan. Little did we know that our friends on Taiwan could so effectively use the space created by our friendship to revolutionize their political system.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Friends
  • Political
  • Space

• I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Audience
  • Find
  • Situation

• I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Country
  • Hope
  • Stand

• When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Reality

• I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Style
  • Feel
  • Inspiration

• I don't know that I would want to be married again, but I do love companionship.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Love
  • Want
  • Know

• I may be a star in the South, but when I go to Bollywood, I am a clean slate, a white paper. Whatever the director makes of me is what I will become for the audience.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Star
  • Audience
  • Director

• I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Up
  • Time
  • Home

• When the 'Seinfeld' show said it was going to be a show about nothing, everybody said it couldn't - wouldn't work. It did. 'Thor' is about something, about that character finding his destiny, but it's not doing what was expected... and yet it's doing very well.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Work
  • Character
  • Destiny

• Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • American
  • First

• I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Parents
  • Strong

• We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Time
  • May
  • Strong

• I started on computers with 'Billy Bathgate,' a little orange screen with black letters. I thought it was really cool, but it actually slowed me up for a while because it's so easy to revise, I tended to stay on the same page. I've learned to discipline myself.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Up
  • Black
  • Myself

• I don't think playing a villain is my greatest talent.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Think
  • Talent
  • Greatest

• Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • Life
  • Joy
  • My Life

• Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Smart
  • Need
  • Everything

• When the party gives me a responsibility, I must do it with complete dedication. God has given me the ability, which I utilise to its optimum.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • God
  • Party
  • Responsibility

• The status quo - Obamacare - is not acceptable.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Status
  • Status Quo

• I've always loved silent movies. I recently saw 'Tilly's Punctured Romance' at the Academy, which is the first comedy made with Charlie Chaplin in 1914, and I sat there, and I couldn't believe that the entire audience of 2,000 people were laughing that hard from a movie made in 1914 - and there were no words; it was all faces.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Believe
  • Movie

• That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it.

  

  Alejandro Jodorowsky
  • Art
  • True

• All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

  

  Aristotle
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Education

• I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid becoming too styled and too 'done' and too generic. You see people as they go through their career, and they just become more and more like everyone else.

  

  Emma Watson
  • People
  • Done
  • Career

• It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • People
  • Governments
  • Revolutions

• By and large, the making of serious, thoughtful and occasionally valuable art has become a lonely persuasion, while the marketing of art has become a boutique operation, manipulated by fashion, self-serving art scholars and the vagaries of the auction block.

  

  Abe Ajay
  • Art
  • Making
  • Manipulated