Martine Syms Quotes

Pipilotti Rist is a Swiss video artist I learned about pretty early on. She's one of the first contemporary artists I knew about and was really drawn to.

Martine Syms

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ArtistEarlySheFirstPrettyKnew

It's one of those things; you just get a very nice stroke from being included in the next thing.

Andreas Katsulas

YouNiceNextThingsGetJust

I get along with everybody because I don't believe anybody.

Sirio Maccioni

BelieveBecauseAlongGetEverybody

In my banjo show with the Steep Canyon Rangers, I do do comedy during that show. It'd be absurd just to stand there mute and play 25 banjo songs.

Steve Martin

StandComedyPlayCanyonAbsurd

The one thing I don't do, that helps make me successful, is I don't rob Peter to pay Paul. All of my businesses have to stand on their own.

Tony Stewart

MeStandPayOwnSuccessfulMake

Certainly, writing a book was challenging. It took me a long time to learn how to do it. It took me seven years to get a sense of how to wean myself off the process and trickery of songwriting. You realize that giant metaphors work in songs because you have so few words. Standing alone on a page, they threaten to be overblown in a hurry.

Rodney Crowell

WorkAloneTimeMyselfWordsMe

Without a doubt, German football, where I've played for nearly five years, is very similar - maybe just a little less tough than English football.

Roberto Firmino

FootballToughDoubtYearsWithout

Television has given Pakistan a truly open national forum for the first time in its history. Ideas are debated, leaders are assessed and criticised, and a nation of 170 million people is finally discovering, together, what it thinks.

Mohsin Hamid

HistoryTimeTogetherPeopleIdeas

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Lucian Freud

WorkI AmMePersonWantPaint

Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.

Christopher Koch

BusinessExperienceImaginationYou

I don't feel the need to have to break out of anything or prove that I'm 'edgy.' Been there, done that mentality. I'm just ready to tackle on new projects that are challenging and help me continue to grow as an artist.

Chrissie Fit

MeGrowFeelHelpArtistReady

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

Boris Becker

ManStartCarePlaceStreetNever

I feel that historical novelists owe it to our readers to try to be as historically accurate as we can with the known facts. Obviously, we have to fill in the blanks. And then in the final analysis, we're drawing upon our own imaginations. But I think that readers need to be able to trust an author.

Sharon Kay Penman

TrustThinkFactsFeelDrawingTry

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