Alexandra Ashley Hughes (Allie X) Quotes

I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for a lot of personal information about my past or who I am. I would rather the personal side of it just be in the concepts and the genuine feelings that I filter through my work. I know that it's inevitable that people can find whatever they want about me. Once I've had a chance to create a language and a world with my art, then I'm more comfortable sharing that information.

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• My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • World
  • Mother
  • Father

• If anything, I'm the most hesitant to bring on a label. That terrifies me. I think people believe major labels are linked to success. They're absolutely not that.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Believe
  • Success

• There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Up
  • Time
  • Art

• When distant and unfamiliar and complex things are communicated to great masses of people, the truth suffers a considerable and often a radical distortion. The complex is made over into the simple, the hypothetical into the dogmatic, and the relative into an absolute.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • People
  • Great
  • Truth

• Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • War
  • Future

• The world of fiction is a sovereign world that comes to life in the author's head and follows the rules of art, of literature. And that is the major difference that is reflected in the form of the work, in its language and its plot. An author invents every aspect of a fiction, every detail.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • World
  • Village

• The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • History
  • Past

• The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • World
  • War
  • Greatest

• It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • People
  • Parents
  • Just

• Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.

  

  Larry Rivers
  • Art
  • You
  • Mood

• As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • People
  • Time
  • Live

• We are a people trying not only to solve the problems of the present: unemployment, inflation... but we are attempting on a larger scale to fulfill the promise of America.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Trying
  • America

• Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • True
  • Car

• At the end of the day, New Yorkers need a mayor who understands the problems they face, brings a smart plan and good people to the table, and, more than anything, has the independence, courage and conviction to do the right thing.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Good
  • Day

• Over the course of history, the people who are not scared go into the woods and are mauled by a bear, are not going to survive.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • People
  • History
  • Bear

• While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.

  

  Dan Gelber
  • People
  • Law
  • Rules

• We see people voting for bills that their ideals and principles are opposed to, but because their little funding project is in there, they're voting for it. We might say it's one percent of all spending but the impact of that spending is far greater.

  

  Sean Duffy
  • People
  • Voting
  • Bills

• I have reaffirmed my political will to work towards national unity.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Work
  • Political
  • Unity

• Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

  

  Jerome K. Jerome
  • Sweet

• The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Matter
  • Stars

• America glories in its tradition of the self-made individual. Political candidates compete to be a friend to entrepreneurs, and policymakers, imagining the next Microsoft or Google, design laws to back the innovator in the garage.

  

  Mark McKinnon
  • America
  • Political
  • Friend

• I think that I would really like at first for the art to speak for itself. I don't see the need for a lot of personal information about my past or who I am. I would rather the personal side of it just be in the concepts and the genuine feelings that I filter through my work. I know that it's inevitable that people can find whatever they want about me. Once I've had a chance to create a language and a world with my art, then I'm more comfortable sharing that information.

  

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