Tom Wesselmann Quotes
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For me, I'm always looking for the opportunity for a character that challenges me and lets me play two for the price of one.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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I often joke that I straddle psychosis and neurosis, and that being an artist keeps me in the middle, so I can work between the two.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I see a curator as a catalyst, generator and motivator - a sparring partner, accompanying the artist while they build a show, and a bridge builder, creating a bridge to the public.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - what makes people tick. I've also always been passionate about social issues and causes, and I wanted to make films that addressed important issues in very human terms.
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I like to try all kinds of styles so it always challenges me and forces me to try to look different.
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If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
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My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
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My director is usually aware of what works for me and what doesn't. For 'Srimanthudu,' I have to give full credit to director Koratala Sivagaru for handling my character the way he did.
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I love wearing my hair curly, but turning the curling iron all the way up creates curls that look really made up and artificial.
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Success is a high, but the way up is hard, and you have to give your all.
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To make the bloody thing talk the way I do when I'm on a verbal roll, in my idioms and rhythms.
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There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
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The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
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The way I see it, if people truly love my music, they will support me in some way down the road.
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It so happens, in Malaysia, the people who are in a way not doing as well constitute the majority of the people - the Bumiputeras.
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Our main reasons for fearing males having sex with males is that you really had to construct a more powerful social role to keep men in their place than you did to keep women in their place.
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I never have really said much about the whole episode, which was endless. But his speech was a perfectly intelligent speech about fathers not being dispensable and nobody agreed with that more than I did.
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To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
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My mom always said, 'Marry someone smarter than yourself, Katee, because No. 1, you're not that smart. And No. 2, then you'll have smart babies.'
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When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.
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The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.
