Amy Sillman Quotes
In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have this feeling of trust that people can read it for themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Early in my investment-banking career, I realized I was on a path that others had set out for me.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
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If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death, human life cannot be complete.
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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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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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I say, you work eight hours, and you sleep eight hours - be sure they're not the same eight hours.
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I'm not a drunk anymore, but since they cut out my tongue, I sound drunk.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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Holy cow, in the course of one week I feel like I've lived about a year!
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I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's asleep, they go erasing the past. It's like a bad Ray Bradbury story - 'The Memory Erasers'.
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I had a Stuart Davis poster growing up.
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In Australia, getting an audition can be a rarity. There just aren't as many opportunities.
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I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
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Be careful who you trust, the devil was once an angel.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
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In my work, we're not looking at an icon, we're not looking at a sign, we're not looking at a representation. We're looking at something. I do have this feeling of trust that people can read it for themselves.
