Elaine de Kooning Quotes

I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

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• The world is too violent right now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Right
  • Now

• I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.

  

  Kat Dahlia
  • People
  • Want
  • Hill

• It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Funny
  • Day
  • Forever

• When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Myself
  • Thought

• During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Great
  • Today
  • Old

• I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • Women
  • Real
  • Interesting

• To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Change
  • Justice
  • Meaningful

• For me to have the opportunity to stay with one character for, God willing, a long period of time, is really exciting.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• There's a love of rhetorical skill in the Muslim world. Osama bin Laden doesn't just go on tape cassettes and say, 'America sucks.' He recites poetry; he finds things that 'America sucks' rhymes with.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Poetry
  • Finds

• My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Age
  • Imagination
  • Optimism

• Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.

  

  Aaron Burr
  • May
  • Today
  • Action

• We know that communication must be hampered, and its form largely determined, by the unconscious but inevitable influence of a transmitting mechanism, whether that be of a merely mechanical or of a physiological character.

  

  Oliver Joseph Lodge
  • Character
  • Communication

• I do think it's possible to change for the better.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Think
  • Change
  • Better

• I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Want
  • Baby
  • Italian

• I missed my father so much when he died that writing about his life and mine was a way of bringing him back to life and getting me to sort of understand more about him and what made him the father, the husband and the man that he was, and how that made me the man, husband and father that I am.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Father

• It's easy to sleep floating around - it's very comfortable. But you have to be careful that you don't float into somebody or something!

  

  Sally Ride
  • Sleep
  • Easy
  • Be Careful

• To make a discovery is not necessarily the same as to understand a discovery. Not only Planck but also other physicists were intially at a loss as to what the proper context of the new postulate really was.

  

  Abraham Pais

• Which, of course, isn't the point of writing - but it would be nice if, along with the creative satisfaction of writing and seeing my work in print, I could do more than merely scrape a living. Okay, moaning over.

  

  Eric Brown
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Nice

• You couldn't be romantic if your life depended on it." "You know what's lucky? Most bad guys don't ask you to be romantic on command, so that probably won't matter.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Matter

• I'm a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Spiritual
  • Thought
  • Weird

• For me, it's just about keeping the standards up. We're a small country, so we have to punch above our weight. I'm not a great man for doing something just because it's Irish, and you never know what's going to work. But as long as we keep the standards up, people will continue to invest in films. It's as simple as that.

  

  Brendan Gleeson
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• Work by George Grant called Legislating Immorality, which called for the execution of all gay people, but was kind enough to qualify it in a footnote by saying that in our judicial system we would have to give them a trial first.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Work
  • Immorality
  • Judical System

• I'm more interested in character. Character comes out of the work. Style is applied or imposed on it.

  

  Elaine de Kooning
  • Work
  • Character
  • Style