Agnes Denes Quotes
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Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
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I believe that incentivized prizing is the best solution to help unlock the answers to the some of the profound problems that plague our planet.
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When you're a kid, to be honest, you could be in the worst situation ever, but you're still going to have ways to enjoy it.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I love the outdoors. I love climbing mountains.
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I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.
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Often, when you're on a movie set, you're miserable. It's cold. You're hungry. You're tired. It's still dark out. And yet, there's no place I'd rather be. It's the happiest I am, and the most calm.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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Sometimes I play guitar like a frustrated drummer.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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It was my Uncle George who discovered that alcohol was a food well in advance of modern medical thought.
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No idea is isolated, but is only what it is among all ideas.
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Like many of us in Arizona, I wasn't born here - I'm a product of the Midwest and the working class.
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People ask me about fighting in real life and, honestly, it wouldn't look as graceful as it does in film and TV.
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I am not the kind of director who sits in a chair smoking a cigar talking with a microphone to 10 assistants. I need to move. To touch. To put a painting on a wall. To arrange a set.
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Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy and all over the place.
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Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
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People have too many problems during the day; they don't want to think.
