Lois Greenfield Quotes
I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creating images without forethought. I know many artists start with an idea in mind, and then they put it on paper. I don't work that way.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I didn't choose to write a military man as much as Vince Haven chose me.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.
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I did an 'Our Town' in San Diego in the seventies with amateurs that I can tear up just thinking about.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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That's something the head scarf, in a symbolic way, is meant to do in Arabic culture: it defines your relationship to your husband and the men of your family differently than your relationship to the average guy on the street you've never met.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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Sometimes you don't know what a book is about until you are finished with it and you're talking about it.
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My bread and croissants wouldn't win a prize! I'm not an expert in yeast cookery.
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Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy.
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The greatest testimony to the human spirit that I'm witnessing now is the fact that people still come back to work, after all that has been done to them. They are still willing to participate for a more positive future if they would be sincerely invited.
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When I see a white piece of paper, I feel I've got to draw. And drawing, for me, is the beginning of everything.
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I don't digitally manipulate my images, because I am interested in the spontaneous act of creating images without forethought. I know many artists start with an idea in mind, and then they put it on paper. I don't work that way.
