Gavin Turk Quotes
The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.
Quotes to Explore
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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I was a little adult for my age as a teenager, and I didn't feel like I socially fit in with my peers.
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The Democratic Party is the party of the status quo.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.
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When sustainability is viewed as being a matter of survival for your business, I believe you can create massive change.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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I always follow the same idea: Start small and disrupt to create something big.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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Avoid popularity if you would have peace.
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Boxing is a noble sport.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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I try to not focus on what people expect from me.
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His eye a ring inside a ring inside a ring That leers up, joyless, vile, in meek obscenity - This is the devil. Flesh to flesh, he bleatsThe herd back to the pit of being.
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The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.
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I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
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We went through a nice stretch of big guys. But soon, everyone is going to realize that there's only one Steph Curry.
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My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.
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I've felt emotions onstage that I never felt before; it has strengthened me as a person and as an artist.
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The artist has the power to signoff the work by deconstructing the work itself: I've finished this work now and I'll sign it and relegate the painting to simply something that services my signature. The painting becomes the colorful backdrop of the signature.
