Nir Hod Quotes
To me, paintings are about beauty. They are very feminine, and beauty is something very feminine. For a long time, people would talk with me about identity. I don't have issues with identity, I just follow this kind of feminine beauty because I became a victim of my art, which I think is the best thing for an artist. So many artists use their talent, but with the best artists, their talent uses them.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Giving people some kind of control over what they do is important. Human beings don't do their best work under conditions of control.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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My career is chequered. Then I think I got pigeon-holed in humour; Shakespeare is not my thing.
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Writers are so important.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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My dad doesn't hug me enough!
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
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Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.
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The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?
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So many venues are owned by these various different ticketing and promoting people, and they're all in bed with one another. It's no secret over here.
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I think that if you take somebody out of their comfort zone, they're going to dislike people because they're not liking themselves in a situation.
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My favorite ski slope is the kind that winds up at the cafeteria. My children, though, usually insist that I get out and take on a few expert runs, in a game called 'Let's See if We Can Get Our Inheritance Early.'
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Does what you think of you determine your worth?
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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On one hand I am this weird androgynous tomboy where I'm strangely low maintenance and have a five-minute makeup regimen. On the other I'm obsessed with all things beauty, from skin care to makeup.
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To me, paintings are about beauty. They are very feminine, and beauty is something very feminine. For a long time, people would talk with me about identity. I don't have issues with identity, I just follow this kind of feminine beauty because I became a victim of my art, which I think is the best thing for an artist. So many artists use their talent, but with the best artists, their talent uses them.
