Natalie Jeremijenko Quotes
I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
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I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'
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IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
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Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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If you have spent any time with Barack Obama, you know he's a funny guy. He's a good guy. He knows sports.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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For those who turn to literary biography for salacious details, 'Flannery' will disappoint. It is the biography of someone who had very little chance to live in the conventional sense, to experience events.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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The bee collects honey from flowers in such a way as to do the least damage or destruction to them, and he leaves them whole, undamaged and fresh, just as he found them.
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The people who are the most successful in life are not stopped by fear.
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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
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I like the ideology of there being no such thing as perfection. But I'm of the opinion that I have witnessed perfection at various times, especially in art.
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My wife doesn't even want to spend 2 hours with me.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
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In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the sea is often fanned only by the land and sea breezes, and is like a smooth bed, on which these islands seem to sleep in bliss,--islands in which the spice and perfume gardens of the world are embowered, and where the bird of paradise has its home, and the golden pheasant, and a hundred others of brilliant plumage, whose flight is among thickets so luxuriant, and scenery so picturesque, that European strangers find there the fairy land of their youthful dreams.
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I created a successful outdoor youth festival - the Liverd festival - against all good advice. It was a great way to explore and investigate social sculptures. Having that as my kind of studio, outside of a museum or precious white-cube gallery, that was a kind of education.
