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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A lot of my friends are artists or musicians or single parent families and I'm totally aware of how difficult it is for them to make ends meet.
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I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.
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The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something.
