Agnes Martin Quotes
I am staying unsettled and trying not to talk for three years. I want to do it very much.

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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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I loved getting to Chagrin Falls, being by the falls; what a cute place it is.
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Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl the listings, paying sellers with fake cashier's checks and luring buyers to share their credit card numbers.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.
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You need a big ego to be an artist.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.
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The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
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I was a dancer of no repute. But dance taught me a lot. You walk into a dance studio knowing you have to walk out with a dance. You improvise.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I'm not super into sports.
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I'm just so grateful for the 10 years that I had in Sri Lanka when it was in the middle of a war and I was getting shot at, because now and again I remember glimpses of those times, and I just go, 'Wow, I'll never, ever see that again in my life. And I'm never gonna feel that, and I'm never gonna feel for a human being like that.'
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I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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I'm just trying to create characters and tell stories.
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For me, it's just always about trying to tell stories that I care about.
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I've learned that, as an actor, I have a responsibility to my audience.
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It's very important to me that people see I am an American and I was born in the States.
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My favorite word is clarity...clarity...clarity. And the critical clarity is what is the transformation that is going to take place in the customer's life or work when they buy and use your product? And how profound is that? How important is that? You know the old saying, "If you could come up with a cure for cancer you'd be a billionaire by the end of the week" because of that profound result.
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I am staying unsettled and trying not to talk for three years. I want to do it very much.