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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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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I have the backbone of an eel.
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When I was unemployed, I hosted lots of dinner parties. Now I have time to make a pot of soup for the week - if I'm lucky!
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After all we have been through, blacks and other minorities deserve to be protected, as anyone else.
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I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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It is impossible for motion to subsist without place, and void, and time.
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Since everything is a reflection of our minds, everything can be changed by our minds.
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My studio is the only place I feel good in. There, I'm fearless; outside, I'm a mess.
