Clyfford Still Quotes
The best works are often those with the fewest and simplest elements.. ..until you look at them a little more, and things start to happen.
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My dad was a voracious news consumer. I remember just sitting with my family all the time. I would sit on his lap and read the paper with him. He would read it to me.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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I think I take what you might call a B-movie story, deal with B-movie subjects, and I treat it as if it's an A-movie in terms of my approach, my crew, my actors, my ethics and so on. I guess that's my trademark or one of them, anyway!
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I tire of franchises, remakes, and endless sequels.
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A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.
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If you ask the government to solve all of your problems, it's a bit like asking your wife to cook and clean, to raise the children, to hold down a second job to help with the family finances, to keep her parents happy and well and keep your parents happy and well, and to also - to do the lawn and clean the gutters.
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If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.
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I think that talented people really do have insecurities, and that is one of the things that kind of motivates them, because that's one thing they know they're good at. And when they're up on that stage, you can do no wrong. The audience is yours; they're there to see you.
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I believe in a world where there are no heroes, and I've read and know humanity a lot. There are moments that I admire in a person courage, intellect, hard work. These are the qualities I admire in an intellectual, in a writer, and there are so many people who have these things.
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No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
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Making a big Hollywood film that really affects people is as hard as making a small movie on a credit card.
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I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you know? It's difficult to get it right and get it funny. I really enjoy doing it. I kind of wish I'd done it more. I can't complain. I've had a fair crack of the whip.
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If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.
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Doing jersey advertising for the World Cup is not in the same universe as putting advertising on NHL sweaters.
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I'm very passionate, very emotional, very sensitive. I've always been like that.
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'The Office' is less a comedy than so many other 'comedies' that have been on the air. It's really about the balance between what is real and what is comic.
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I would love to work with Shilpa again. But it would have to be for 'Dill Mill Gayye (DMG)' - that's the only fiction show I'll take up on small screen. I'm extremely faithful to that show. That apart, I'm not likely to do anymore fiction on TV for the time being.
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You learn the hard way. That's the thing with social media. Nobody knows what they're doing.
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Incrementalism ceases to be a good strategy when there's a cliff on the route.
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You have to assign specific tasks to everybody so you don't bump into each other and start arguing about silliness.
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If I had to get lost in a fictional world? I would love to go with those Hemingway characters in 'The Sun Also Rises' when they go on that trip in Spain, and they go fishing. And they take the wine bottles, and they put them in the river.
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The best works are often those with the fewest and simplest elements.. ..until you look at them a little more, and things start to happen.
