James Henderson (Big James Henderson) Quotes
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I think artists are really the root of a tree. They can search for truth or reality in their own way, and the gallery can support them - the outside part of the tree, where it is more about reaching the outside world, connecting with the outside world. That is the role of the gallery, no? Why does the artist have to do that?
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Let's see if we can't get this war behind us now. Certainly, the man in the street, the common person there, wants to have this war behind him. I think a lot of the soldiers are very war-weary too.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
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Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I didn't have many girlfriends in my youth. I was an active young man, jumping from one girl to the next, but never with anyone for more than three or four months.
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For my Ph.D. thesis, I was measuring the electrical activity that triggers light emission from a bioluminescent dinoflagellate. As I was nearing the completion of my degree, my major professor wrote a grant for an instrument for measuring the color of very dim light flashes from bioluminescent animals.
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I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.
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I guess I'm curious about how people process grief and how they process loss. And I'm also interested in the ways in which an event can have long-reaching consequences and a life over the course of years.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.
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Music videos are an especially fun thing to watch - I bet from the outside, too - because you learn so much, just like in our music... It's really fun work.
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Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
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It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
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I never did steroids in my life. I know all the fighters; they are all on steroids.
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
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The sphinx will always have to be looked after.
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We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.
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It's fun conjuring what people will be wearing in the future. We exist in this world today, and yet there are people walking around who still look like they're in the '60s.
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I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
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There are heads of royal families who control hereditary fortunes that defy comprehension.
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In moments of great grief, that's where you look and immerse yourself. You realise you are not immortal, you are not a god, you are part of the natural world and you come to accept that.
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My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.
