Thinking Quotes - Page 34

• I really don't see any influence of my work on any artists. But I do think I've had an influence on drawings' being shown. I've had an influence on the economics of it.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Artist, Drawing, Influence

  Interview with John O’Connor, www.believermag.com. December 2004.

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• I think that in some ways there is no more important thing in my life outside of family and God.

  Harry Lennix

  Important, Way, Important Things

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The Black church is extremely important in Black America. I think most Americans themselves believe in a divine power, in a god, and I'm sure that that number increases with Black people.

  Harry Lennix

  Believe, Numbers, America

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think that Hollywood is content with condescending to Black people, patronizing them, feeling sorry for us, and I think we're happy to take the pat on the head as a people and take whatever awards.

  Harry Lennix

  Sorry, Awards, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The truth is more important to me than anything - my personal wealth or health or any of these things. I think that it's not so difficult for me to say what I'm saying.

  Harry Lennix

  Important, Wealth, Truth Is

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If you directly try to write about an idea, it will never be what you imagined. But if you're imagining through the building of sentences, through the characters, and paying attention to avoid ease and comfort yet still thinking about making the sentences work, you will get a shot at some real interesting stuff.

  Dana Spiotta

  Real, Character, Writing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• For me writing is an organic process that starts with engaging the language and then thinking about the structure of the novel as you move along. Especially in revision you start to notice correlations. Things come up, not self-consciously, because you're busy feeling your way through sentences and trying to push the language into new places.

  Dana Spiotta

  Moving, Writing, Self

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I think there's a lot to be learned from pop culture. But at the same time I see the dangers of using it in an exclusive way to construct meaning in your life.

  Dana Spiotta

  Way, Culture, Danger

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Although I use myself in my videos, I really see myself as a character. When I look at myself, when I sit and edit, I never think, "That's me." I think, "This is a character, and how do I edit this to tell a story?"

  Laurel Nakadate

  Character, Video, Looks

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• As people who make things, we have the ability to think of the most vile, awful things we can imagine, but it doesn't mean we believe those things. I allow myself to go places in my videos that I would never go in my real life.And I think that there has to be that place where you can create and not have to be living it in real life.

  Laurel Nakadate

  Real, Believe, Mean

  Interview with Scott Indrisek, believermag.com. October 1, 2006.

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• As individuals, I just think that our biggest responsibility is to be self-aware, and some of us are not.

  Pharrell Williams

  Responsibility, Self, Individual

  "Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• As much as we think we are as artists, we think, oh, you know, we're going to do this, we're going to do that, and really at the end of the day it's the fans that make that determination. Because if they don't buy it, stream it, share it or talk about it, then you're just a crazy person with an idea.

  Pharrell Williams

  Determination, Crazy, Artist

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• I think minimalism is something I just got attracted to just in general because I like the empty space, if you think about it, like there's a lot of empty space. So there are sounds there, there are chords, like coordinates, to sort of tell you where the emotion is going, but then it leaves so much room for the voice to do other things.

  Pharrell Williams

  Voice, Space, Rooms

  "Transcript: Pharrell Williams In Conversation With NYU Tisch & NPR Music". Interview with Jason King, www.npr.org. October 29, 2015.

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• I think we, especially in American culture, are so afraid to talk about death. And I'm not talking about literal death. I'm talking about shedding skin. I'm talking about rebirth, ultimately, and how we continue to change as human beings and continue to grow. There's that great Henry Miller quote, "All growth is a leap in the dark."

  Amber Tamblyn

  Dark, Talking, Growth

  "Amber Tamblyn: 'I get rejected for a living'". Interview with Rachel Matlow, www.salon.com. August 30, 2015.

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• I think it's become such a part of younger people's daily life to have the instant access to each other that it sometimes gets a little presumptuous. People feel like it's OK, for example, to email you with some weird personal criticism they have.

  Ted Leo

  People, Criticism, Email

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I always think the novelist should go to the culture's dark places and poke around. Pose a lot of hard questions.

  Dana Spiotta

  Dark, Novelists, Culture

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• When you start a game, you don't think to yourself, "well, OK, I'm going throw a one-hitter today." It just becomes an organism, your outing becomes an organism and it grows.

  R.A. Dickey

  Games, Today, Wells

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• I think what motivated me was just hope. Something inside of me, deep down in my guts, always felt like there was something in there.

  R.A. Dickey

  Motivated, Guts, Felt

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• You never go into a season thinking you're going to strike out 200 guys or that you would have the most double-digit strikeout games in the big leagues, or anything like that. You just try to win, and the outing becomes what the outing becomes.

  R.A. Dickey

  Winning, Games, League

  "Master of the Knuckleball". Interview with Jeremy Stahl, www.slate.com. October 29, 2012.

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• I always thought of writing as public, I never thought of writing a diary. I had been struck by, jolted by things I had read, and I wanted to do the same to others. I don't think it ever was the notion of an autobiography; I skipped that phase totally, I think.

  Vito Acconci

  Writing, Diaries, Phases

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• Even though I always claimed that I didn't want to write about something - once I wasn't writing fiction, anyway; I think for me the change from fiction to poetry was that in fiction I was writing about something, in poetry I was writing something.

  Vito Acconci

  Writing, Fiction, Want

  Interview with Shelley Jackson, believermag.com. January 1, 2007.

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• I think the optimal artwork is in constant circulation with the world around itself.

  Aleksandra Mir

  World, Artwork, Constant

  "Aleksandra Mir Interview: Naming Tokyo". Interview with Christophe Cherix, Kim Conaty, aleksandramir.info. June 20, 2011.

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• The Stonehenge proposal got a lot of interesting criticism. One of the best - or worst - said something like, "Go home to Las Vegas." I think this project could possibly be realized at a very late part of my career. Right now, I don't have the authority, the budget, the credibility.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Home, Careers, Vegas

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Of course I can have a simple reaction of sympathy and sorrow to destruction. But you also know that you can't have new things if you don't occasionally destroy the old. That's something you're really not allowed to say because things are often destroyed according to particular power relations so it means taking a stand in those cases, which I am not really interested in doing either. I think I am simply interested in looking.

  Aleksandra Mir

  Mean, Simple, Sorrow

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, believermag.com. January 1, 2004.

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• You pick people, and they pick you sometimes. It's especially great to connect with people you think you have nothing in common with.

  Aleksandra Mir

  People, Common, Sometimes

  Source: www.believermag.com

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