Larry Poons Quotes

There's something always instinctively visually right about nature. There's no difference, to my eye, between looking at a great painting and looking at nature. Because painting, when it's great, has the same immutable rightness, unquestioned rightness, about it.

Larry Poons

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: artist
  • Nationality: japanese
  • Birth: October 1, 1937

Topics

NatureGreatPaintingLookingEye

When I was very young, I thought the theatre was a place where higher beings went about their celestial business, as if they knew nothing of ordinary life and its political mysteries.

Andrew O'Hagan

LifeBusinessTheatreThoughtPlace

What's worse than getting divorced?

John Catsimatidis

WorseThanDivorcedGetting

I didn't grow up with great privilege, nor did I grow up wanting for anything. I was a middle-class kid and, relative to the rest of the world, that's great wealth.

Matt Damon

GreatWorldRestGrowWealthKid

I stopped performing because I don't have the temperament of a performer. You have to want to do the same thing over and over again. Once I got it right, I didn't want to do it again. I always use the analogy of a novelist who has to read his novel in public night after night. I just didn't want to do it.

Tom Lehrer

NightYouWantRightAlwaysOver

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.

Tom Felton

PersonCollectorMuchSupposeSort

You never just do a scene once; you do it an insane amount of times.

Michiel Huisman

YouNeverJustInsaneOnceScene

Growing up in Hollywood it seemed like every kid was the child of some star. We had no idea that other people would think we were special, because there was no other lifestyle to compare it to.

Liza Minnelli

ChildPeopleGrowing UpThinkKid

And it's important to remember we are all responsible - or certainly the elected members in Washington of both parties are responsible for making decisions and choices to ensure that the economy grows and jobs are created.

Jay Carney

ChoicesDecisionsRememberWashington

This is the big leagues; pitchers throw a lot of strikes. I feel like they attack me. That's why I go up there and swing.

Jose Altuve

MeFeelGoSwingWhyBig

With drama, you know if you're having a true moment, but in comedy, if somebody doesn't laugh, then you know you're not being funny. That's a really fun challenge, and that's what draws me to comedy.

Brooke Nevin

FunnyChallengeMomentFunMeLaugh

I'd like to solve more problems and help Hoosiers with more opportunities by serving on more committees.

Todd Young

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I think the U.K. is too small to write about from within it and still make it seem foreign and exotic and interesting.

Mark Haddon

SmallThinkInterestingWriteWithin

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