Pablo Picasso Quotes
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.
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When I was growing up, skateboarding was big and basketball was big.
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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.
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Darkness is the only path to light. It is not our wonderful gifts that make us closer to God: it's using our garbage to transform ourselves. This is the key that unlocks the door that opens to God.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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Every time I put on high heels, I think: 'Well, I'll fall over today.' Almost always, I don't. Almost. But all high-heel-wearing women live in constant peril.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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Be obscure clearly.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
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In addition to reining in spending, taxes, tolls and fees, let's rein in how much the state borrows.
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Being an actor really, really strengthens me as a director. There's just a certain type of understanding that comes from having been there and knowing how much is really being asked of actors that helps me.
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In a novel you have to resist the urge to tell everything.
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An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
