Elaine de Kooning Quotes
A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing... I like to do it 100%.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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There are films you see that only reach your eyes. Then there are films that you can watch... that reach down to your throat, or reach your heart. 'In the Mood for Love,' though, reached all the way to my belly.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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You are repetitious and stupid.
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The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.
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The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.
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The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.
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Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.
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I am often compared to actors who were launched with me. I feel blessed with whatever I have got so far.
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Go ahead and have the Kit Kat at the movies. If you don't satisfy an urge sometimes, you often substitute less-satisfying things and end up eating more.
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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
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Please call your second witness, and then call your mother, she worries.
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There are different kinds of justice. Retributive justice is largely Western. The African understanding is far more restorative - not so much to punish as to redress or restore a balance that has been knocked askew.
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A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
