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.
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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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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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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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Kids are anarchy writ large.
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Mum built a life for me in a difficult place at a difficult time.
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...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.
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We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.
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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.
