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Cornelia Parker Quotes

I need eight hours of sleep, but I never get it except at weekends.

Cornelia Parker

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: english
Birth: 1956

Topics

Sleep Never Need Weekends Get Hours

How you define a problem shapes how you address it.

John O. Brennan

Problem You Shapes Define How

I want to stay below the radar and make good films. I have to be careful; I don't want my life to change. I really don't want to be a movie star.

Life Change Good My Life Want Star

Artists have so much more control of their futures - they don't need to rely so much on major labels or big companies to help them. You have artists like Skrillex that can dominate so much that he gets 5 Grammy nominees, and he's clearly an underground artist.

Control Help You Artist More Need

It's funny, you know: my mother-in-law, who doesn't have an ounce of nerd in her, is just so excited by the fact that I write 'Batman' because she'll see an article about me in the 'Washington Post' or 'The Wall Street Journal' or something. And that means so much to me.

Funny Me You Wall Mother-In-Law She

Black people dance well because we start early - there's music being played everywhere. White people? They don't start dancing until they get to college, and by then, it's too late; the bottom don't move with the top no matter how hard they try.

Music Dance People College Start

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even more than film, is a place of public debate.

Believe Think Better Debate Place

I have found having my dad as my North Star has worked well for me.

Me Star Well Found North Having

There have been many times when we have not run stories because we cannot get it verified.

Run Because Get Cannot Been Stories

Our farmers and ranchers have never faced as many problems as they do today with drought, range fires, high gas prices and an ever tightening budget on agriculture subsidies.

Today Problems Budget Agriculture

I had my first French meal and I never got over it. It was just marvelous. We had oysters and a lovely dry white wine. And then we had one of those lovely scalloped dishes and the lovely, creamery buttery sauce. Then we had a roast duck and I don't know what else.

Wine Duck White Know Never First

We've always had a philosophy that we would always go wherever the joke is.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Philosophy Go Always Joke Wherever

Commercials are 20 seconds long, so you don't get to experiment with your characters. But in films, you get to try out your acting skills.

Long You Acting Skills Try Out

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