Ashley Bickerton Quotes
Through the last few decades it the art object has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I think if you are young and you have children, you still have so much to prove. When you have children later in life, you lose a bit of that urge for working.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.
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I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
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If the world's leaders are serious about improving collective well-being, we'd better get serious about prioritizing education in our nations and in our global discussion.
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I'm really funny now.
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I had been coming to New York, pretty much once a month, to dance on Broadway. I was offered a huge Broadway show but couldn't do it because my brother was having his huge Bar Mitzvah.
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We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
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Anger is stronger than fear, stronger than sorrow.
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The world has arisen in some way or another. How it originated is the great question, and Darwin's theory, like all other attempts to explain the origin of life, is thus far merely conjectural. I believe he has not even made the best conjecture possible in the present state of our knowledge.
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If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
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What we in industry learned in dealing with people is that people do not work just for money and that if you are trying to motivate, money is not the most effective tool.
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We cannot judge either of the feelings or of the characters of men with perfect accuracy from their actions or their appearance in public; it is from their careless conversations, their half-finished sentences, that we may hope with the greatest probability of success to discover their real characters.
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What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.
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It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.
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I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
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The first movie I literally ever made in my life was about two guys playing Stratego with each other. I had all my friends dressing up like the military characters in the game. So 'Battleship' is really my second board game turned movie!
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I think there is a real art to walkabouts.
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Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.
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Everyone thinks chemistry and alchemy are so similar, but they’re really not. They’re not even related. They just happen to live in the same house.
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Through the last few decades it the art object has been ripped off the wall and twisted through every conceivable permutation, yet back to the wall it insists on going.
