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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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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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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I never thought of a career of as a model, and it was a total surprise for me when I won the contest and became Miss Chelyabinsk. Then I started modelling in Paris.
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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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We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.
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Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
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We must begin to inculcate our children against militarism by educating them in the spirit of pacifism. Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal it's horror. I would teach peace rather than war.
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One room is always enough for one person. Two rooms is not enough for two people. That is one of the conundrums in life.
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Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.
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My poor little New Zealand: exporting frozen meat in peace, live meat in war.
