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Cornelia Parker Quotes

Dust, in the end, settles on everything.

Cornelia Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1956

Topics

End Dust Everything In The End

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Great Man I Am Proud Toys Tell

If we continue to tolerate this level of poverty in our cities, and go along with eviction as commonplace in poor neighborhoods, it's not for a lack of resources. It will be a lack of something else.

Matthew Desmond

Poverty Go Will Poor Resources

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

Me Cold Think Down Know Way

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

Character Great Influences British

Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

Pain Child Challenges Divorce Know

I don't eat as much as an athlete should. I just don't like it.

Athlete Eat Just Like Much Should

I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

World America Country Position Trade

Nixon is fascinating because he's our most alienated president. Everybody felt that they never knew who he was - that's palpable in the histories. His face is so cartoony that he's become this cartoon figure. I never really related to the romanticization of J.F.K., and I knew too much about Reagan to idealize him. Nixon falls in between.

Austin Grossman

Face Too Much Become President Never

Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

World Too Much Nothing Knowing Gone

Poetry's always dead, you know? You don't realize how good poetry is until 15 years later.

Good Poetry You Know Dead Realize

There's a cardinal rule that you don't talk about sharks. If you don't see it, it's not there.

You Sharks Talk Cardinal See Rule

My daughter loves horses. My other daughter loves soccer.

Daughter Soccer Horses Other Loves

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