Arnold Friberg Quotes
I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.
Quotes to Explore
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Your mind is a magnet. You don't attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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One movie is only one movie. I want to have a lifetime of making films.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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My dad read the Bible ten times, and I want to do it in my lifetime. But it's definitely tough getting through.
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We do not want to alienate supporters.
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
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I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'
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I'm stubborn; I know what I want. I'll dedicate all my efforts to achieving it.
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I did not want to get involved with a rock star. No way. It is not a sane thing to do.
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I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.
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I was really surprised when I was told that my grandmother did not come to see me till a month after my birth. I was born seven years after my only sister Chandranshu, and my birth was a big disappointment for her.
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My character is meant to know nothing about rap, and not to like it very much, but I know about it, because my kids make me listen to it. There's some rap I do like very much. I like Eminem, Blackalicious.
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People who follow their religion to the letter of the law are just silly. I mean, I want to tell Hasidic Jews I promise you, God will not mind if you wear a nice cotton blend in the summer.
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Yes, we are all different. Different customs, different foods, different mannerisms, different languages, but not so different that we cannot get along with one another. If we will disagree without being disagreeable.
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Christians believe that God is everywhere and is involved in our lives at every moment, whether we publicly acknowledge God or not.
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I am doing what I want to do - painting pictures people want and understand. I have no burning ambition to create the kind of 'art' which the confused critics praise for its 'plastic significance,' 'fluid lines,' and 'inner awareness,' or 'must be understood on three levels.
