Richard Prince Quotes
My studio is the only place I feel good in. There, I'm fearless; outside, I'm a mess.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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New York, in itself, has this frenzied, chaotic feeling to it. It's such a big city, and it's always moving, and there are so many people.
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Ireland is such a young society. The British were the ruling class up until they left about a hundred years ago, and we've been trying to work out what our class hierarchy is ever since.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
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I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living.
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Twitter is an amazing public tool with an incredible capacity for public good.
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I try to leave a light footprint. I'm involved with Global Green, which aims to educate people about sustainable building and the greening of schools. I try to be aware about the consumption of unnecessary things in a consumptive culture.
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The hair department is always on my case about washing my hair. I am incredibly lazy, and a brat about washing my hair.
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Writing is a solitary existence. Making a movie is controlled chaos - thousands of moving parts and people. Every decision is a compromise. If you're writing and you don't like how your character looks or talks, you just fix it. But in a movie, if there's something you don't like, that's tough.
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The Koran and the laws of all civilized nations legislate against the vilification of religions.
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My health is very good.
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My father was a pioneer in so many ways. He was fearless, and I think that I kind of picked that up from him as well.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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I think most of us become nicer as we get older, less judgmental, less full of certitude; life tends to knock a few corners of us as we go through. Cancer, divorce, teenagers, and other plagues make us give up on expecting ourselves - or life - to be perfect, which is a real relief.
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Even if you go to Australia today, it's very much like visiting a state you haven't been to.
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The mind can be convinced, but the heart must be won.
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My studio is the only place I feel good in. There, I'm fearless; outside, I'm a mess.
