Genesis P-Orridge (Neil Andrew Megson) Quotes

Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.

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• When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Up
  • Work
  • Fun

• I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Think

• God is of no importance unless He is of supreme importance.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Importance
  • Supreme

• I still have a young attitude.

  

  Pat Morita
  • Attitude
  • Young
  • Still

• I love dogs. I have a Golden Doodle and an Alaskan Klee Kai.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Love
  • Dogs
  • Golden

• The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • World
  • Family
  • Power

• All I want to do is be the best attorney general that I can be.

  

  Pam Bondi
  • Want
  • Best
  • I Can

• I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Personality

• One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Heaven
  • Couple

• My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.

  

  Zeresenay Alemseged
  • Work
  • Family
  • Individual

• I've had experiences where I wasn't allowed to change words around at all because you have to say everything, exactly as written on the page. That's not fun for me. For me, part of being an actor is being able to contribute to a character's rhythms. If there's room to explore, you find a happy medium.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Character
  • Happy
  • Fun

• Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Done
  • Poetry
  • Convince

• I am sorry that my convictions do not allow me to repeat my friend’s offer, said one of the others. But I have had to abandon the humanitarian and egalitarian fancies. His name was Mr. Neo-Classical.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Friend
  • Sorry

• 'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.

  

  Kinky Friedman

• Of course, success takes you where your character can't sustain you.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Character
  • Success

• I'm tall in Sweden, but I'm huge in Hollywood.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard

• People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

  

  Christo
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• Porter Square Books was the only place I could find that was dog-friendly, work-friendly, and had food. I was there all the time.

  

  Matthew Pearl
  • Time
  • Work
  • Food

• I think it's so important to be healthy and confident and natural. And not put too much stress on trying to be thin - I don't get the thin, thin thing at all.

  

  Lily James
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Stress

• I never met anybody in my life who says, I want to be a critic. People want to be a fireman, poet, novelist.

  

  Leslie Fiedler
  • People
  • Life

• Herbs, and other country messes,Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses.

  

  John Milton
  • Country

• You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

  

  Peer Steinbruck
  • Long
  • Together
  • Political

• In the old days, I'd have to go as a company, buy computer resources, buy servers, buy storage, and lash it all together. It took a long time to stand up. Now, if I need, I can go to Amazon or Rackspace and buy some computer power nearly instantaneously.

  

  Peter Levine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• Any artist should stay challenged as long as possible.

  

  Genesis P-Orridge
  • Long
  • Artist
  • Possible