Cornelia Parker Quotes

I went to a quite macho art school in the 1970s, and while everyone was making hulking big sculptures, I was making things out of bits of paper.

Cornelia Parker

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ArtSchoolEveryoneOutThingsBig

Breakfast is Special K cereal. If I'm having a big meal, it's lunch instead of dinner. Some kind of wrap, like chicken for protein. For dinner, mainly vegetables. I mix it up if I go out to eat.

Jillian Rose Reed

BreakfastLunchDinnerVegetablesGo

I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.

Jennifer Coolidge

CharacterMyselfWomanI AmI Can

I am for our not having any discrimination in tax legislation.

Angela Merkel

I AmDiscriminationTaxLegislation

In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.

John Prendergast

SufferingWorldDoingGoalConcrete

Mine's going to be the best book tour that ever happened!

Ronda Rousey

BestBookGoingMineTourHappened

I wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. I grew up in Houston. Gordo Cooper was my favorite astronaut.

Dennis Quaid

KidHoustonUpFavoriteWantedGrew

Louisiana has got a very specific warmth and humidity and richness of light.

Christopher Heyerdahl

LightWarmthGotLouisianaSpecific

All these fifty-year-old guys wearing baseball caps and shorts and acting like children. It winds me up. Men don't have to take responsibility anymore. Most of the guys I know would punch me on the nose for saying this, but maybe we do have to bring back conscription.

Chrissie Hynde

ChildrenResponsibilityMenBaseball

I'm all about 'molde de arroz con picadillo'.

Christina Milian

ConAbout

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love.

Brian Selznick

LoveTimeBookLongChooseBooks

There is no such thing as a Democratic or Republican road, bridge, port, airfield or rail system.

Anthony Foxx

BridgeRoadRepublicanSystemPort

My mother is like a character who escaped from the set of a Fellini film. She's a whole performing universe of her own. Activists would run a mile from her because they could not deal with what she is.

Arundhati Roy

MotherCharacterUniverseRunShe

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