Lucien Smith Quotes

People understand what art is supposed to look like, and so it's easy to make something that looks like art but isn't - especially in an abstract form.

Lucien Smith

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ArtPeopleEasyLookLooksAbstract

There's a misunderstanding about what nonsensical things are - the idea that they're just funny, and that's the beginning and the end of it. Nonsense is not 'not sense' - it operates at the edge of sense. It teems with sense - at the same time, it resists any kind of universal understanding.

Jesse Ball

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I just submitted what I had to the 'Octopus Books' contest open reading period, and they said they wanted to publish my poetry book. Then I started to publish more and more poetry because people would ask me to do readings or ask me submit something for their journal.

Jenny Zhang

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Happiness consists in activity. It is running steam, not a stagnant pool.

John Mason Good

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As I get older, my appreciation for wine has just increased. I fell in love with wine through my travels, but knowing what the wine country is all about definitely makes it my own.

Jeff Gordon

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In the field of sports you are more or less accepted for what you do rather than what you are.

Althea Gibson

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I love scenes that are just emotional give and take. By the same token, action sequences are great to do. They have their own unique demands and requirements. So I take it as it comes, and hopefully you can get a good balance of all of that stuff.

Stephen Lang

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The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future. And if what you see in your future has no hope, it has no potential, then you view the past that brought you to here as not very good.

Story Musgrave

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It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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I view myself as having an adversarial approach to the media.

Mike Cernovich

It's OK to have a little bit of curve.

Miranda Lambert

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My stockbroker asked me something important today: paper or plastic?

Jay Leno

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I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

Chris Evans

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