Gavin Turk Quotes
I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art. In the end, I developed a more sophisticated misunderstanding of art.
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Relinquishing apparent national sovereignty does not have to entail a loss of national sovereignty, but can actually be a benefit.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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Editing is a natural extension of the collage making. It's actually one of the few areas that women were able to excel in in the film industry from the beginning.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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The idea that motherhood is inherently somehow a threat to creativity is just absurd.
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I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can't be all that bad.
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At the after-party of the Indy 500, I'm usually wearing jeans and a tank top.
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Whenever I start to really think about what I'm playing, I may play it better musically, but the feeling isn't there.
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I've gotten over that by now. But I remember the first time reading the book, I was like, 'Wait, Jacob's been trying to get Bella this entire time, and he strikes out, so he goes for her child?' I was so confused. It took me a second.
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I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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President George Herbert Walker Bush ran as a strong conservative, ran to continue the third term of Ronald Reagan, continue the Ronald Reagan revolution. Then he raised taxes and in '92 ran as an establishment moderate - same candidate, two very different campaigns.
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People find it hard to fit exercise into their working-day life. Nine to five jobs take up most of your day, so it's always difficult. But a little can go a long way. It can literally be 10 or 15 minutes of exercise that can be of real benefit.
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In my eyes, a patriot is little more than an international blackleg.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.
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I range the fields with pensive tread, And pace the hollow rooms; And feel companion of the dead I'm living in the tombs.
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The acting of the '50s is really stylized, so you're not really getting a lot of authentic, everyday characterization of people.
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Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.
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Art is a critical component in a well-rounded education. Art is the level playing field - no matter how rich or poor, tall or short, pretty or ugly to the bone, if you can draw, you can find personal fulfillment and build self-confidence. Art is the highest achievement of mankind.
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A fine artist is one who makes familiar things new and new things familiar.
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I don't think I ever really decided I was an artist. I went to college to learn how to think and look at art. In the end, I developed a more sophisticated misunderstanding of art.
