Cecily Brown Quotes

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

Cecily Brown

• Painting
• Movement
• Illusion
• Exciting
• Fixed

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• Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

  

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• I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.

  

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• Ask not what your teammates can do for you. Ask what you can do for your teammates.

  

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• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

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• When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.

  

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• From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.

  

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• If you're going through friendship issues, I would say, first of all take a step back. How important is the friendship to you? Sometimes, if someone's not being a good friend to you and isn't treating you the way you should be treated, then you kind of have to move on sometimes.

  

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• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  

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• Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.

  

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• I'm very active, wild woman.

  

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• I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.

  

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• Organic compounds exist in which a hydrogen atom, joined to the carbon, acquires acid properties as a result of the proximity of certain functional groupings.

  

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• Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.

  

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• The truth is that everything is risky; life itself is risky.

  

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• No matter what he does, one always forgives him. It does not depend upon looks, either – although this actual person is abominably good-looking – it does not depend upon intelligence or character or – anything – as you say, it is just 'it'.

  

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• I know 'Hallelujah' isn't actually a Christmas song, but it has that cozy, haunting vibe that sounds like a winter's night and belongs by a fire.

  

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• Never just run through a study because you happen to be familiar with it, but use it to see what you can get from it on this new day which has been granted you.

  

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• You can make a film in a way that, when the audience leaves the theater, they leave with certain answers in their head. But when you leave them with answers, you interrupt the process of thinking. If, instead, you raise questions about the themes and the story, this means that the audience is on its way to start thinking.

  

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• Asanas keep your body, as well as your mind, healthy and active

  

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• When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.

  

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• I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

  

  Cecily Brown
  • Painting
  • Movement
  • Illusion