I let my personal feelings take care of themselves. I find that works better.
Anna Held
Recitation: by Male by Female
Whether art is defined as a representation of or response to reality, it demands an intense engagement with things we haven't managed to understand fully.
Joanna Scott
ArtRealityUnderstandRepresentation
There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 stories, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
John Bolton
New YorkBuildingLostNewUnited
Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.
Jenna Wortham
WorkLiveTimeInterestingPersonal
Too afraid of plagiarising someone, so I stopped reading fiction in 1981.
Robert Rankin
ReadingSomeoneAfraidFictionToo
I know, being a father myself, what my interpretation of true love is, or the essence of love, and you can apply it to other things besides human beings.
Robert Stromberg
LoveFatherMyselfTrue LoveLove Is
When I was in my 20s, I was out of control in terms of what I would do to defend my vision. There are black film-makers and storytellers who take a back seat to just get it done. It's good, but it's not right there. It's been compromised.
John Singleton
GoodVisionControlBlackBackDone
As a songwriter, metaphor is instinctual.
Rodney Crowell
SongwriterMetaphorInstinctual
Money is the outcome of my work and is incidental.
Dilip Shanghvi
WorkMoneyOutcomeIncidental
When you work on big commercial movies, of course there's more money involved and you can still do some good work. But with an independent, you get films that are really close to the writers' and directors' heart. Somehow it becomes a little deeper. A little more meat and not as much flash.
Dennis Haysbert
WorkGoodHeartMoneyGood WorkYou
Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Desmond Tutu
ForgivenessSunWindowYouWindows
I think it's like that for people who don't remember 1969 first-hand. It's that sense of 'old hat.' Of 'been there, done that.' Space shuttles, space stations, communications satellites, GPS - they're all part of our everyday, taken-for-granted world in 2009, not part of an incredible odyssey.
David Weber
HatSpacePeopleWorldThinkDone
Vince Russo knows about as much about wrestling as Eric Bischoff does.
Bret Hart
WrestlingKnowsMuchAboutDoes
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