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.
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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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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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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I used to be such a daredevil but now I'm much more cautious.
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Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.
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Painting is something that requires a lot of time - it's not just one good idea out of art school.
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Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.
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Speaking is what most people work on. They forget the thinking and the breathing and instead try to occupy space with sound.
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You couldn't drop me! You never dropped me.
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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.
