Amrita Sher-Gil Quotes
Although I studied, I have never been taught painting because I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
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I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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People are mostly focused on defending the computers on the Internet, and there's been surprisingly little attention to defending the Internet itself as a communications medium.
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You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.
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It is often said that women are a civilizing balance to the innately warlike male. By taking care of the killing for women it could be said that men civilized women. When survival was the issue, men killing to protect what women bore was the male form of nurturance.
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The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.
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Science is-or should be-the greenest force of all.
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I want my music, whether it's sung by other people or sung by myself, to affect the way the Top 40 radio sounds. I want to heavily influence it with things that have come directly from my brain.
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It is difficult to stop in time because one gets carried away. But I have that strength; it is the only strength I have.
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I did exhibitions with the Surrealists in Paris, c. 1929 because their attitude revolted against 'art' and their attitude toward life itself was wise, as was Dada's.
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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks.
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Even if the painting is green, well then! The 'subject' is the green. There is always a subject; it's a joke to suppress the subject, it's impossible.
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The thing about coming back to the Bay Area, it's like coming home for me.
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Although I studied, I have never been taught painting because I possess in my psychological makeup a peculiarity that resents any outside interference.
