Allan Kaprow Quotes
Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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I was admittedly comfortable with Iman Cosmetics being identified as a beauty brand that filled the gap for black women because it was deeply personal for me.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The artist finds, that the more he can confine his attention to a particular part of any work, his productions are the more perfect, and grow under his hands in the greater quantities.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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(On seeing a former lover for the first time in years) I thought I told you to wait in the car.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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A woman's health is her capital.
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It's a trap I've fallen into earlier in my career - trying to be liked. Don't do it. When I watch TV and I see someone trying to make me like them, acting cute or quirky or goofy, I'm not impressed. Don't act like America's watching you. Just latch onto your character. Characters are flawed. Be unlikeable. Be flawed. Be a person.
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I hate feeling like a prisoner. I show up somewhere, and I can't explore the city because there's, like, 6,000 to 10,000 people on the lookout for me.
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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People are complex. You can be smart and still look hot. You can be a punk rocker yet have a refined vocabulary. It's all about this mashup that makes us who we are and I think that's a beautiful thing.
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I never expected that I'd be doing as many jobs as I did. I know everybody says that, but I thought I'd be sat in my pants waiting for someone to ring me. Then maybe within five years I might get something.
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I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.
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I don't think that I have ever been rebellious. The thing is that I don't believe in people - what people tell me. I have to accept it in my own brain first. I don't listen to anyone, never.
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What's more important-your goal, or others' opinions of your goal?
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I can't remember if it was in the third grade in school, I was being told that two amoeba happened to hit in a muddy puddle of water two billion years ago, and I was an accident. I was the result. I wasn't real smart, but I said, 'I don't like the sound of that.'
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My mother did like to make clothes, and in I think the worst picture I've ever seen of myself - I must have been eight or nine - she'd dressed me in a matching t-shirt and Bermuda shorts ensemble which I think looked like somebody had thrown up all over it. I was so glad when that sewing machine stopped working, I have to say.
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There is little much beyond the grave, but the strong are saying nothing until they see.
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Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work.
