Eleanor Catton Quotes

We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

Eleanor Catton

Recitation: by Male by Female

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WorkExperienceSpeakYouDownWay

Wolfgang Tillman's stunning large-scale pictures, being shown for the first time, were so offhand I failed to see them as art.

Jerry Saltz

TimeArtPicturesFirst TimeSee

I have a full and satisfying life. My work and my family are very important to me.

Stephen Hawking

LifeWorkFamilyMeImportantFull

I'm like the painter with his nose to the canvas, fussing over details. Gazing from a distance, the reader sees the big picture.

Steven Saylor

DetailsPictureDistanceBig Picture

I also do a lot of Kundalini yoga.

Russell Brand

YogaLotAlso

Don't Ask, Don't Tell was a successful compromise in 1993; and so that compromise should remain.

Mike Pence

CompromiseAskTellSuccessful

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn't make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

Joyce Meyer

LifeFailureTryingYouNobodyQuit

The federal government has an exceptionally poor record of behaving responsibly with Americans' personal information when entrusted with it.

Jared Polis

GovernmentInformationPersonalPoor

Our ways of relating to each other become like habits.

Deborah Tannen

BecomeHabitsLikeOtherOurWays

It is clear that it is not man who has created the universe - whether you believe in God or in gods or deny any divine presence - man cannot alter the laws that govern the universe without damaging it.

Sean MacBride

GodManBelieveUniverseYouDivine

I like being the underdog.

Thomas Newman

UnderdogBeingLike

If America is addicted to foreign money and foreign oil, then China is addicted to foreign supplies of just about every commodity known to man - save highly polluting coal.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

MoneyManAmericaOilChinaJust

I became a musician so I wouldn't have to get up at 6 in the morning.

Norah Jones

MorningUpGetMusicianBecame

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