Asger Jorn Quotes
During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
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I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.
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I'm not going to roll back anything. Nothing is going to change with respect to reproductive rights.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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Work is the meat of life, pleasure the dessert.
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A great byproduct of a TV show, movie, or play is when it can act as a catalyst for someone.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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I think, for me, I'm a player that wants the puck, and I'm a better player when I have it.
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I baked bread, hand-ground peanuts into butter, grew and froze vegetables, and, every morning, packed lunches so healthful that they had no takers in the grand swap-fest of the lunchroom.
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I'm a Wisconsin kid, so I like brats and burgers and stuff like that. Cheese curds.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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The whole world is an open, free market. No state can exist without the others.
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I exercise every morning. I do light weights - 5lb and 10lb arm exercises - and then lie and lift my arms and legs. It's all about keeping core strength. I do a lot of stretching too.
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To me, crazy is not someone who has a creative vision and will fight for it.
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Artist and illustrator R. Crumb did a whole illustration of Genesis. And he didn't go away from the text; he was totally truthful. Reading through that, I was like, "Oh, wow, it's a comic-book version of the Bible." There's a lot of heavy-duty stuff that goes on that doesn't make it into Sunday school.
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During every really creative act, the artist finds himself homeless. To overcome this state he has to call up his last reserves of strength.
