Jasper Johns Quotes

To do a drawing for a painting most often means doing something very sketchy and schematic and then later making it polished.

Jasper Johns

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PaintingDoingDrawingSomething

The wrap party for the 'Lorna Doone' TV series was pretty special. We went to about four clubs, then four people's houses, and I got home at midday the next day. I'd been wearing ridiculous green shoes all night, and the dye had smudged all over my legs.

Amelia Warner

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Oh yes, things get me mad. But the thing is, I get mad, and then I turn around and I forget.

Sofia Vergara

MeMadForgetTurnYesThings

I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience.

Mary Szybist

ExperienceFindTurnRatherThan

I'm just kind of odd. There are dark forces in the world, and if you pay attention to what's going on around you, you end up incorporating it into the storytelling. Maybe it's some aspect of myself that's coming through that people are seeing, that I am in fact a quiet psycho.

Michael Shannon

MyselfI AmPeopleWorldEndYou

When I was 17 I interned at a school, and it was the most exhausting, difficult thing I've ever done, with all these screaming children.

Lucy Punch

ChildrenSchoolDoneDifficultMost

I'm obsessed with reality TV anyway - I use my knowledge of that stuff to make jokes on Twitter and Facebook to get more people to sign up to be fans.

Lisa Lampanelli

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I'm a night owl, and luckily my profession supports that. The best ideas come to me in the dead of night.

Josh Fox

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My parents divorced about the same time the movie 'The Parent Trap' came out, about two twins at camp who scheme to get their parents back together. I had that same fantasy.

Chuck Palahniuk

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There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.

Alfred Korzybski

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The problem with allowing God a role in the history of life is not that science would cease, but rather that scientists would have to acknowledge the existence of something important which is outside the boundaries of natural science.

Phillip E. Johnson

LifeGodScienceHistoryProblem

Sunday night was such a big night for television when I was growing up - you know, 'The Wonderful World of Disney.'

Scott Bakula

Growing UpWorldNightYouSunday

I got asked by a freelance journalist to jump in front of Princess Diana's funeral. How pathetic is that? That would have been the stupidest thing on the planet.

Mark Roberts

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