Tony Conrad Quotes

But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.

Tony Conrad

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
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  • Birth: March 7, 1940 - April 9, 2016

Topics

CommunicationLiteratureOutAgainst

When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.

John Corbett

BusinessMeThinkHellDoingPerson

One girl who stands out was this Miami stripper. She still lives with her mother and father, and they know she strips. They call her by her stripper name, Freaky Red.

Method Man

FatherMotherGirlRedNameMiami

I believe I can do anything. If I decide I want to be a doctor tomorrow, I'm going to be a doctor.

Amy Jo Johnson

TomorrowDoctorBelieveI CanWant

A company's commitment to searching out potential blockbusters and then investing in marketing to convert potential to reality attracts and retains top scientists and creatives.

John Quelch

CommitmentPotentialRealityTopOut

In the playground, I always made people laugh; I used to charge them three pence for an impression of a teacher. It kept me in toffees.

Sue Townsend

TeacherPeopleMeLaughThreeUsed

I really admire the great Japanese artists who could change their name three times in a lifetime. You could get rid of one and renew yourself.

Tony Harrison

ChangeGreatYourselfNameYou

I'm into people's emotional lives and relationships and the complications of living. That's my turf.

Mike Mills

PeopleLivingRelationshipsEmotional

If we all went to Google right now, or went to Yelp right now, we'd all get the same results, and that seems really, really broken to me. Foursquare should understand the neighborhoods I've spent a lot of time in, and the restaurants that I went to once but never went back to.

Dennis Crowley

TimeBrokenMeBackResultsNever

Driving alone, you can make 800 miles a day.

Donald McCaig

AloneDayDrivingYouMilesMake

I don't just want to go out there and do my job - I want to excel at it. I hold myself to a high standard. I expect to make plays that alter the game, and if I don't, I hold myself accountable.

Clay Matthews III

MyselfJobGameGoWantHigh

I'd rather there wasn't an afterlife, really. I'd much rather not be me for thousands of years.

William Golding

MeYearsRatherAfterlifeMuch

I began as a naturalistic painter. Very quickly I felt the urgent need for a more concise form of expression and an economy of means. I never stopped progressing toward abstraction.

Piet Mondrian

MoreNeverNeedEconomyExpression

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