Wolf Kahn Quotes
I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh, it becomes too noisy or too quiet, and at that point I still want the picture to be strong, forceful, and the carrier of everything that a painting has to have: contrast, drama, austerity.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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Misfits aren't misfits among other misfits.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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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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I think I was a decent actor, but it took a lot of work for me to make a choice on how to read a line.
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I mean, look at her. Any idiot, you know, would quite taken with Amy.
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Small businesses are really the engine in the economy.
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When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.
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For a while, he was far better than the team around him, and he could give me fits..
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Chorus of Furies: We claim to be just and upright. No wrath from us will come stealthily to the one who holds out clean hands, and he will go through life unharmed; but whoever sins, as this man has, and hides his blood-stained hands, as avengers of bloodshed we appear against him to the end, presenting ourselves as upright witnesses for the dead.
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As an actress I find the most enjoyable part of acting is really just to please the director. I just want to please my director.
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The two inventions of the century, the car and the computer, are gradually coming closer together.
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Wet Hot American Summer so far is a financial disappointment and money was lost on it. But perhaps it will find its audience in video, cable, etc, maybe over the course of years.
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I think we need to have competitive tax rates in order to create jobs in this country. And I think it should be fair.
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I was raised by two women, and that laid the groundwork for the way I treat 'em: with the utmost respect and admiration.
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When you try to do something ten per cent better, you tend to work from where you are: if I ask you to make a car that goes 50 miles a gallon, you can just retool the engine you already have.
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I'm tired. I'm going back to bed.
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My career was always full of risks one way or another, and that's the way I like it.
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A big tree seemed even more beautiful to me when I imagined thousands of tiny photosynthesis machines inside every leaf. So I went to MIT and worked on bacteria because that's where people knew the most about these switches, how to control the genetics.
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I don't have any control of how I am received. People will either like me, not like me or love to not like me.
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I'm always trying to get to a danger point in color, where color either becomes too sweet or it becomes too harsh, it becomes too noisy or too quiet, and at that point I still want the picture to be strong, forceful, and the carrier of everything that a painting has to have: contrast, drama, austerity.
