Cecily Brown Quotes
I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.
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There are so many steps you have to go through to reach a high level, so you're kind of building your own, I would say, mountain. You have to go piece by piece by piece. When you're young and really ambitious, you want to jump right up. It kind of teaches you a lesson, I would say.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
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To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.
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If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction.
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I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.
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When people are very damaged, they can often meet the world with a kind of defiance.
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I'm happy that I'm finally getting some lines in my face. I always looked too young for the kind of roles I wanted. It was constraining. My face didn't fit my innards until I reached 40.
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For the life of me, I still don't understand why humans pray.
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The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
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I kind of discovered Kolkata when I was shooting here for 'Kahaani.' I found the city fascinating.
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Remove all the traffic lights, yellow lines, one-way systems and road markings, and let blissful anarchy prevail. I imagine it would produce a kind of harmony.
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How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.
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There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way.
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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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I would love to get a Moonman! I'd put it next to my other awards. I don't have a cabinet right now; they're just kind of all around my flat, one next to the TV, one in the bedroom. So, I'd have to build a cabinet.
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I never get used to going out and seeing 20, 30,000 people that are there to see us play. It's kind of surreal.
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Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.
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Television moves so fast. A series moves at such a rapid pace and things are changing, episode to episode, where you're going, "Wait, why am I doing this? This last episode, you told me I was doing this." You're shooting at a moving target.
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For me, writing is such an escape, and I felt very lucky to have this to run away to.
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I’m more interested in leading a loving life, you know, and being generous in spirit to people that work for me. There has to be some fundamental belief in some sort of God, I think, but it’s not something I can easily identify with.
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I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.
