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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When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
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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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My English is actually getting worse. We talk Spanish at home and switch to English only when we need it. Like when we go to the bank to get some money.
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Let it never be forgotten that, although we may do nothing about the Word we hear, the Word will do something to us.
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I'm a huge fan of world cinema, because each country uses cinema in a very individual way.
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Sometimes when we label something dystopian fiction, I feel like we're trying very hard not to use the words 'science fiction,' because science fiction has those horrible connotations of rocket ships and bodacious babes.
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It's about trying to step out of being patterned and closed off and reclusive, which I've always had a problem with. It's about attempting to be normal and just go out and be around other people and hang out. I have a tendency to sometimes be pretty closed off and not see people for long periods of time and not call anyone.
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I am staying unsettled and trying not to talk for three years. I want to do it very much.
