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Edward Ruscha Quotes

I have no social agenda with my work. I'm deadpan about it.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 16, 1937

Topics

Work Social Agenda About

A more productive economy in the long term will bring us higher tax revenues, but that requires long-term investment in infrastructure and the skills necessary to grow a balanced economy.

Grow Long Tax Skills Investment

I admire those women who really knew who they were and didn't apologize for it. Katharine Hepburn? She was ahead of her time.

Women Time Admire Ahead She Her

George Wallace for some strange, unknown reason, he liked me. George Wallace came down to Florida, and he went all over Florida, and he said to the people, 'If you all can't vote for me, don't vote for those oval-headed lizards. Vote for Shirley Chisholm!' And that crashed my votes, because they thought that I was in league with him to get votes.

Shirley Chisholm

People Me Thought You Down Vote

One of the promises I made when I ran was, I'll never vote with my reelection in mind.

Mind Promises Vote Never Made Ran

But why should I run for office and lose what little influence I have?

Influence Lose Run Why Office

I first started working in film when I was 17. I was a director's assistant, an editor.

Mathieu Amalric

First Director Started Film Working

You have been tried by twelve good men and true, not of your peers but as high above you as heaven is of hell, and they have said you are guilty.

Good Men Hell You Heaven Guilty

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

Live Die Something Sure Willing

When I was working with Barry Sonnenfeld, I'd watch him set up a shot and talk to him about what he was seeing and what it was to shoot comedy. He told me that a lot of times with comedy, it's not just about getting the joke, but getting a reaction to the joke. That's the laugh - it's somebody's else's reaction to the joke.

Me Laugh Comedy Seeing Talk Him

I have a place in the Broadway community that can only be earned.

Community Place Earned Broadway Only

The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.

Life Language Be Different Doing You

I think men under pressure - I mean, that's what brings out the worst and the best of us. I like to explore that quite a bit in my characters because I don't see a lot of it on the screen that moved me like the films that I grew up with - that are honest, at least, about honest emotions and honest heroism.

Best Men Me Think Pressure Emotions

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