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“I guess I have no motivation to make an abstract painting, even if they sometimes read as abstract. I think, with abstraction, it's easy to fall into a sort of pastiche.”
Source : Interview With Laura Hoptman, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 15, 2013.
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“There is no death, only a change of worlds.”
Source : Albert Furtwangler, Chief Seattle (1997). “Answering Chief Seattle”, p.25, University of Washington Press
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“I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.”
Source : Graham Swift (2012). “Shuttlecock”, p.23, Pan Macmillan
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“Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.”
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“It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by”
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“One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left.”
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“When someone forces me to do something I don't do it.”
Source : "Mo Yan accepts Nobel prize, defends 'necessary' censorship" by Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.
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“Ive never been a big believer in ghosts or the spirit world, and for me, that was part of the point of the movie, ... What the Ghostbusters represented was the triumph of human courage and human ingenuity. People create their own monsters. Our fears come from within us, not outside.”