Agnes Gund Quotes
I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn't even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn't a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
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Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis.
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Remember that life's big changes rarely give advance warning.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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Girls pour their insecurities into their looks.
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I like elegance. I like art nouveau; a stretched line or curve. These things are very much in the foreground of my work.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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I'm never in my life going to do a record that's a tribute to myself. I don't need it.
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I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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I try to be cool, but I'm not very good at it.
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Go out there and try on everything - short skirts, long skirts, mid length, little jackets, men's clothing - and really look at yourself; really walk around in the clothes. Don't just take someone else's advice. You must feel you in these clothes and feel what it's like to live in them.
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I like doing stand-up and I love putting out TV specials.
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I'm so lucky in my life, but I'm so unlucky in my abilities. I love art so much, but I'm unable to produce it. I can't even draw a dog that doesn't look like a horse.
