"I think abstraction is a very rich area. And it is upsetting that people seem to have some fear of it. I'm constantly making these statements about how you should just look at it and react to it on your own; just relax and let go."

-- Brice Marden

#Letting Go Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“That is all very senseless, but this senselessness has a pretty mouth, and it smiles.”

Source : Robert Walser (2014). “Jakob von Gunten”, p.12, New York Review of Books
“For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When the curtain rises, the only thing that speaks is courage.”
“All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.”
“If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: Byron is dead!”

Source : Thomas Carlyle, Jane Welsh Carlyle (1908). “The Love Letters of Thomas Carlyle and Jane Welsh”
“What I essentially did was to put one foot in front of the other, shut my eyes and step off the ledge. The surprise was that I landed on my feet.”

Source : "Washington Post's Graham Dies", www.wired.com. July 17, 2001.
“The minute you stop expecting life to be simple, fair and easy... it becomes simple, fair and easy.”
“I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.”

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