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Glenn Ligon Quotes

What I realized is that my interest in literature has more deeply structured my practice than I thought.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1960

Topics

Practice Thought Literature More

Actors want to act; actors want to emote. It's like the emotional equivalent of tearing your shirt off and screaming to the heavens: you want to express, and you want to be seen to be expressing.

You Want Emotional Shirt Act Seen

I've been on lots of movies where we've done a lot of planning of sets - how much you build, and is this big enough, and will this get us what we need? - just with foam-core models.

Planning Enough You Done Movies Big

Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly and take care of ourselves.

Angela Lansbury

War Care Grow Take Care Grow Up Up

I think from the age of thirteen, I really wanted to be a producer and I've always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.

Age Tree Think Thought Top Always

Most entrepreneurs are merely technicians with an entrepreneurial seizure. Most entrepreneurs fail because you are working IN your business rather than ON your business.

Business You Fail Because Working

Election time is when you start to hear about 'average people,' 'working families,' 'patriotic Americans' and such.

Anand Giridharadas

Time People Start You Election Hear

My marriage started to go badly wrong after I had my second son.

Marriage Son Wrong Go Started After

Because it was my first time acting in English, everyone on set was difficult to understand. It was a mix of Scottish, Irish, British and American English. To understand a Scottish accent or an Irish accent was so hard.

Time American Acting Understand Hard

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

Beyond Torture Close Chinese Other

Be cocky. Walk into the Georgia Dome like you own it.

Mary Lou Retton

Walk You Cocky Georgia Own Like

At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I'm very generous, and I really want people to see that I am - that's really it.

Millie Bobby Brown

Love Change Art Day Job I Am

It's weird to say, but Sebadoh is kind of Dinosaur Jr. Jr. My two bandmates in the early Sebadoh era, Jason Lowenstein and Jeff Gaffney, were huge Dinosaur fans. They were very influenced by Dinosaur.

Weird Early Say Kind Dinosaur Fans

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