Dan Graham Quotes
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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I think escapism is something artists write about pretty frequently - it's something everyone can relate to, the concept of wanting something more, wanting to find solace, wanting to have something better.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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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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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.
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The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.
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If you're in a Gay Mafia and you get whacked, is that good or bad? gay voice Say hello to my little friend.
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You think it impossible the Convention could have a thought of war with Great Britain, and the conquest of Canada. In this point I differ from you very widely. The conduct of Great Britain, and the conduct of our States, too, was such as to keep up very serious apprehensions between the two powers. The treaty of peace was not fulfilled on either side.
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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
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The key point to bear in mind is that Russia cannot be in Europe without Ukraine also being in Europe, whereas Ukraine can be in Europe without Russia being in Europe.
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The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when they rarely do, they try to problematize it.
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We never waste space saying, 'On the one hand.' We just state an opinion in a Godlike voice.
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In fact I always disliked conceptual art, because my work is about anarchistic humor.
