Cornelia Parker Quotes

I think my work is like a spiral: you keep coming back on yourself, but you're at a different place. It's like reading 'Nineteen Eighty-Four' every five years. You realise that some things have caught up.

Cornelia Parker

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WorkYourselfReadingThinkYouUp

That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.

Joan Fontaine

FamilyFriendsCrownHeadDamage

I would be really happy to be working and be able to do my craft.

Melanie Griffith

HappyCraftWorkingWouldAble

We wanted to preserve as many jobs as possible, so when our sales continued to decline in August 2008, we did about a 5 percent reduction of our global staff. But in order not to cut any more jobs, we froze everybody's pay and put a hiring freeze on.

John Mackey

PossibleMoreSalesPayOrderCut

In a personal context, I'm not in the ground, and I'm not in an institution. So I guess I'm doing pretty good.

John Trudell

GoodDoingPersonalGroundPretty

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Ry Cooder

ChanceThinkPushYouAlwaysGet

There is no cure for emphysema, but you can start treating it and have a better quality of life.

Loni Anderson

LifeQualityStartBetterYouCure

Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.

Lisa Madigan

FearPersonCrimeProductive

After they killed Uday and Qusay, the focus centered on Saddam: Find him, kill him, capture him, whatever it takes. To me, it was a false sense of security: If we get Saddam, we're going to win this war.

Janis Karpinski

FocusWarMeWinFindSecurity

We've been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn't have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.

Jorge M. Perez

CommunicationTimeArtPoliticsOpen

I love dressing Nicole Kidman... And I like dressing regular people. You know why? They buy the clothes!

Dennis Basso

LovePeopleClothesYouKnowWhy

Learn to say 'I don't know.' If used when appropriate, it will be often.

Donald Rumsfeld

LearnKnowSayWillUsedOften

When you're in a church, and you're singing about the presence of the Lord, it is so hard not to get overjoyed because I know Him.

Deborah Joy Winans

SingingChurchYouKnowHardHim

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