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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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
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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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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
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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 choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.
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Children whose parents are reliable sources of comfort and strength have a lifetime advantage—a kind of buffer against the worst that fate can hand them.
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I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.
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'Marley and Me' was a book I was proud of and believed in, but I thought it would just have a modest audience because it is such a personal story about my marriage and my family.
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Why produce even females? Why should there be future generations? What is their purpose? When aging and death are eliminated, why continue to reproduce? Why should we care what happens when we're dead? Why should we care that there is no younger generation to succeed us?
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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.
