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Cornelia Parker Quotes

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

Cornelia Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1956

Topics

Joy Anxiety You Know Opposite Been

The power to prevent violence is a power that no police force seems to have anywhere in the United States.

Power Police Violence Force United

With demands for special education or standardized test prep being shouted in their ears, public schools can't always hear a parent when he says: 'I want my child to be able to write contracts in Spanish,' or, 'I want my child to shake hands firmly,' or, 'I want my child to study statistics and accounting, not calculus.'

Education Child Accounting Parent

Obama might do well to remember that his fast rise from the Illinois state Senate was due in large part to an uncanny ability to make friends and find mentors.

Friends Remember Find Rise Fast

The number one problem companies have during the Y Combinator interview is that a minute into the interview, we don't know what they do. It's the same problem with the application. You might think we're experts, but you still have to explain it to us.

Think Problem You Know Explain Same

I've had a good life. Enough happiness, enough success.

Life Success Good Happiness Enough

You can't be perfect for 90 minutes.

You Perfect Minutes 90 Minutes

I really do try not to emote. I don't like seeing it on documentaries - it seems a bit unprofessional. I also need to be human being and be a kind of sympathetic presence for the contributors I'm with, so there' a line you have to walk.

Walk You Seeing Kind Try Need

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

Questions Military Ask Two Always

I can never understand how a solo could ever be 'uncool.' Play something good, and it won't be uncool, you know?

Dimebag Darrell

Good You I Can Play Know Understand

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

Chuck Palahniuk

People Me Movies More Passionate

I like to play with words and the sounds of words - that's extremely important to me.

Bobbie Ann Mason

Words Me Play Important Like Sounds

I love Cate Blanchett. She's extremely classy and has this knack for taking on roles and being very, very strong, but also embedding vulnerability. She has this relatable quality. I like the path she chose.

Love Path Quality Strong Classy She

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