Marilyn Minter Quotes
The thrill of a photo-realist painter is if you get really close to the painting, it looks just like a photograph. Whereas in my case, if you get close to my paintings, they totally fall apart - so I'm about as far from a photo-realist as it gets.Marilyn Minter
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But in Japanese, there's actually not much of a relationship between the music and the words.
Utada Hikaru -
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
Olympia Dukakis -
That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
Dan Quinn -
A well-conceived product excels at what it does. It's close to being functionally flawless - like a Ziploc bag, a radio from Tivoli Audio, a Philips Sonicare toothbrush, a Nespresso coffee maker or Google's home page.
Gary Hamel -
I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
Rachel Cusk -
I kind of worry about that a little bit - we lost our film culture for 30 years because the Americans came in and bought up all the cinema chains and wouldn't show any Australian films.
Yahoo Serious
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There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
Harry Browne -
If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
Queen Latifah -
It is better that one's customers come to one's shop than to have to look for them abroad.
Manfred von Richthofen -
If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
Baba Kalyani -
Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
Carl Olson -
I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.
Rachelle Lefevre
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
Danica McKellar -
There's only so much academic disruption that a young child can deal with before he just can't catch up.
Irwin Redlener -
I have only one real hobby - my husband.
Florence Harding -
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken -
After I can be happy with knowing that I did what I wanted to do.
Namie Amuro -
That young people don't have valid thoughts about the world because they haven't been alive long enough is sadly a very popular and, frankly, unoriginal sentiment. When I think about that time, I was just responding to the world around me.
Tavi Gevinson
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I know for sure that I have an instinct for color, and that it will come to me more and more, that painting is in the very marrow of my bones.
Vincent Van Gogh -
I used the music kind of as therapy, and it's just amazing that I feel so free after doing that. I feel like I had it trapped inside of me and now I feel free. So it's been a very good therapy session for me as well.
Vanilla Ice -
I'm innocent. It's a conspiracy by you know who.
Gary Glitter -
Whenever people in Washington complain about spending cuts, they mean spending cuts that would affect defense contractors. They want to massively increase spending cuts everywhere else in the budget.
Cenk Uygur -
People who say that music is dead or hip-hop is dead are refusing to evolve.
Erykah Badu -
The thrill of a photo-realist painter is if you get really close to the painting, it looks just like a photograph. Whereas in my case, if you get close to my paintings, they totally fall apart - so I'm about as far from a photo-realist as it gets.
Marilyn Minter