Alex Grey Quotes
Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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If there's an opportunity for me to compete at something, I'm there.
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Hair is a huge part of who I am and what I obsess over - I've had long hair my entire life.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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Suning Appliance has no problem of financial risk. Do you think I'm risky? I'm definitely not risky.
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Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name-calling is left to the foreign ministers.
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Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
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Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.
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There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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I never thought about having a daughter, and then I had a daughter, and it was a remarkable thing. It was very different from having a son and your response to it. With a son, it's much more complex. And it's probably because of my stuff in the past. With a daughter, I was surprised at how simple it is.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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In some weird, warped way, I'm actually convinced that if I got mugged, I could probably take out the guy.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I've done all these historical epics and chivalrous roles, but there's an odder, quirkier side to me that nobody knows about.
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As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.
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The ego … reduces the present to a means to an end.
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I figure there's no point in stressing about what's out of my control, and all I can do is make the best of what I've got.
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Since music is the only language with the contradictory attributes of being intelligible and untranslatable, the musical creator is a being comparable to the gods, and music itself the supreme mystery of the science of man.
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Artists are most themselves when they are out of their minds, transcending the ego skirmishes of conceptual thought, and intuitively relinquishing control to the greater Creator.
