Claes Oldenburg Quotes
If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.
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I never thought I would be standing here, married to an All-American guy, living in Oklahoma. What a country.
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I've found a letter that was written to me from a girl who was getting married. And she wanted to know the secret of a happy marriage. I said - and I wrote back and said something to the effect that I couldn't - I had no magic formula. And I never sat down and thought about it, but everything just fell into place with Ronnie and me.
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My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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Building a better you is the first step to building a better America.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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The list of problems that we all experience may be endless, but I honestly cannot abide by the rule that, 'He who yells louder is heard.'
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I always look at money not as a motivating factor but as an element in the composition. You can't ignore it, but you've got to be very careful that it's not motivating you.
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First scenes are super-important to me. I'll spend months and months pacing and climbing the walls trying to come up with the first scene. I drive for hours on the freeway.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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I think the Supreme Court has not yet caught up to an era in which one keeps one's papers in a cloud, not a castle.
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Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'
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The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.
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There are a lot of people who worked extremely hard in the election who are still organized who know how to do door to door and phone canvassing, who know how to raise money.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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'All-Star Wonder Woman' would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my 'spare time.' I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it 'til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.
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As an actor, it's hard to approach any character with negatives.
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It's hard to accept yourself when you live in a world where nobody is like you, or you feel like nobody is like you because there's no representation.
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The thing with professional boxing is you have to have the right promoter and the right fights. It is a cut-throat business.
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That world of spies and espionage, there's a coldness to it. That's what makes those worlds fascinating - and what makes le Carre's work so interesting.
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Today I feel that I shall win through. I have come to the gateway of the simple; I am now content to see things as they are. I have gained freedom myself; I shall allow freedom to others. In my work will be my salvation.
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If you really want to be an artist, you search yourself, and you find a lot of it comes from earlier times. I have pretty much built the work around my experiences. When I've moved from one place to another, the work has changed.
