Keith Fullerton Whitman Quotes
It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.
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The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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Capital punishment is our society's recognition of the sanctity of human life.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.
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Make as much money as you can. It really does help. I don't know why it's terrible to say, but it's true.
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Life is having its way with me now. And I'm really pleased.
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People under-invest in family because it doesn't pay off until the long term.
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There really isn't a formula for success.
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I didn't want people to say his brother Bing sings better than he does.
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Scripts didn't exist during my time in Bollywood, or, at least, I was never given one. I don't want to act at all and am happy in my cave.
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'Dreamgirls' is special to me.
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The interesting thing about staring down a gun barrel is how small the hole is where the bullet comes out, yet what a big difference it would make in your social schedule.
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In New Bethel, we take the word serious. We whip whores, we hang thieves, and we burn sorcerers.
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Modernism in other arts brought extreme difficulty. In poetry, the characteristic difficulty imported under the name of modernism was obscurity. But obscurity could just as easily be a quality of metrical as of free verse.
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It's funny, because I'm so associated with digital art and computer art, and yet I spend so little time in front of the computer.
