Annette Messager Quotes

Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it.... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.

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• Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

  

  Jack Kemp
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• Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.

  

  N. T. Wright
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• In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.

  

  Nathan Parsons
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• I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

  

  Yair Lapid
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• I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.

  

  Ed Miliband
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• I depend on good editors and a good director.

  

  Indira Varma
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• It doesn't matter how many A-levels you have, what kind of a degree you have, if you have good manners, people will like you.

  

  Kate Reardon
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• You can't do something that is morally vacuous or dysfunctional and then write it off saying, 'It wasn't my film, I was just doing a job in it.'

  

  Damian Lewis
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• I was in a convent for a year.

  

  Beatrice Wood
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• I've been reading ghost stories ever since I could read. I'm immensely curious about ghosts and UFOs and all that stuff, but I'm a very hard-headed person.

  

  Barbara Mertz
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• I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
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• Integrity is the essence of everything successful.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• I get the feeling that people from outside the world of contemporary art see it as deserving of mockery, in an emperor's-new-clothes sort of way. I think that's not right and that it's just because they don't understand the discourse. The art world is filled with vibrancy.

  

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• The beauty of Rome is that you can wander into a pizzeria just about anywhere and get a real Italian pizza that's thankfully worlds away from the Super Supreme I used to order at Pizza Hut as a kid.

  

  Ed Stoppard
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• I've seen pictures of me, and I look mean and arrogant. That's how I felt on the inside. I think now, 'Is that really me?'

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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• The preparation for building a series of thrillers based on a single character is kind of like the preparation for becoming a parent: The best part is the idea - wink, wink.

  

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• While 'Outlander' is a brilliant period show, Claire represents so many qualities of a 10th century modern-day woman: someone who is forging her own path, fighting for what she believes, and doing so with integrity.

  

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• One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

  

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• I sing to Jesus for Jesus now. This gives me pure joy... worship!

  

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• I dont remember a single thing in my childhood that was not related in some way to building.

  

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• What was your name again?" "Still Eve." "No, I'm sure it's something else. That doesn't seem right.

  

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• Mostly, I believe an artist doesn't create something, but is there to sort through, to show, to point out what already exists, to put it into form and sometimes reformulate it.... I didn't invent anything, I indicated.

  

  Annette Messager
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