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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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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I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym.
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I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was - the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.
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Well, I don't think anyone now would say that they're painting the state of the culture of America. I think that's too grand and pompous a thing for anybody to claim.
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People are fond of using military terms to describe what they do. We call it bombing when we go out painting, when of course it's more like entertaining the troops in a neutral zone, during peacetime in a country without an army.
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The only thing Greg Anderson does is what Barry tells him to do.
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A painting to me is primarily a verb, not a noun, an event first and only secondarily an image.
