Agnes Gund Quotes
Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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I have an obsession with fashion - it's another form of expression for me - and I have a growing collection of vintage clothes and jewelry. Being able to play dress-up for my career has been a gift.
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I would like to see America some day.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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In my cranky old age, I actually prefer recording alone now, on 'The Simpsons,' for example, because I find that the director can just focus on what I'm doing and I can do a lot of variations. A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I'm going to find solutions wherever I can. I think it's all a priority. You can't just say, 'OK, I'm going to work on this but not that.' You have to work on all of it.
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Small aim is a crime.
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I've always kind of been an in-the-moment kind of person. I don't think that far in advance or have any idea what's around the next corner.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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The art world is a very prissy little thing over in the corner, while the major cultural forces are being determined by techno science.
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Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.
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All the old great companies were run by guys who knew what an animator meant, and guys who knew how to draw. All the companies today are run by executives.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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I went to my mum at about seven or eight and said I want to start acting, but the week before, I had said I wanted to do ballet. She said if I took acting classes for a full year, she would look further into it, and that's how it started.
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You lose your energy, you lose that excitement and it gets the audience up.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
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If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people.
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I think a lot of times we think of music as being different from other art forms. You would never ask a sculptor or painter, 'Go paint this because you'll get paid more,' you know what I mean?
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Art shouldn't be prohibited in public schools when kids in private schools always get it.
