Cornelia Parker Quotes

I was selling bric-a-brac in Portobello and Camden Market. I love objects. But I was embarrassed by the idea of collecting, so I began using these things in my art.

Cornelia Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

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LoveArtSellingEmbarrassedMarket

Diane Keaton, I've worked with her as a director, and I think she's a really intelligent woman. I like the fact that the things that make her feel beautiful are more than just her face; it's who she is, and I live by that same theory. There are things I want to achieve in my life intellectually that make me feel beautiful.

Andie MacDowell

LifeLiveBeautifulWomanMeFace

Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it.

Megan Fox

WomanWonderSheInvisibleGetLame

Every time we make a new invention, we think we're going to save the world, but eventually, we understand that the real virtues of that new invention have mostly to do with commerce. Then we feel a huge emptiness, and we want to fill it with beauty.

Robert Lepage

BeautyTimeWorldThinkFeelNew

Be careful about what you eat because otherwise you get fat! Do you like to be fat? Eat very, very, very little things. Almost starve, but I don't starve, because I eat very much.

Sophia Loren

Little ThingsFatYouBe CarefulEat

I was painfully initiated into boxing, because the guys I fought were a lot bigger than me.

Sugar Ray Leonard

MeBoxingBiggerBecauseThanGuys

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

Roger Daltrey

LifeMoonLivedThousandTapSpinal

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

Roger Rees

WorldPerfectNothingPhotograph

I understand that fans think short-term, and there's nothing wrong with that. You live or you die in the short term. But I believe in our system, and when you do that, you don't make knee-jerk decisions.

Rocky Wirtz

LiveBelieveThinkDecisionsShort

That's what liberalism is all about, is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair, because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

Rush Limbaugh

BestPeopleFairIncompetenceWould

I design all of my costumes. I like to go out there and feel like I have contributed to every part of what I do. I choose the music, the choreographer, I've obviously chosen my coach, my costumes - all if that falls under my realm of power, my realm of influence.

Johnny Weir

MusicPowerInfluenceDesignChoose

Just because I'm young doesn't mean I didn't work hard to get to where I am.

Chloe Kim

WorkI AmWork HardYoungMeanHard

I don't think you ever get tired of the well-written, well-crafted songs.

Brenda Lee

TiredThinkYouGetSongsEver

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