"I'm constantly making exhibitions in my head."

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Thelma Golden

#Exhibitions Quotes

“The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.”
“When I'm writing a score, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve on it, even when I think it's working well. I don't give up on things, and am always trying to make incremental improvements, which means I never finish writing a score early!”
“Just don't let the hype of what people are saying and how much they love you, y'know, just take the compliment and be thankful that people are complimenting you, but don't let it consume you; don't let your circumstances around you and the way people view you make you act a certain way.”
“A tree full of ripened fruits bows down naturally, because of the weight of the fruits and its willingness to make its fruits accessible to others.”
“Few things worth having can be got easily.”
“I thought, I loved Batman, I loved Spider-Man, I love all these characters, but Catwoman is really different from any other one.”

Source : IGN Interview, www.ign.com. July 2, 2004.
“Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.”
“Are you trivialising the sisterhood if you dye your hair or have your eyebrows threaded? I'd say the answer to that is no. But equally, it's a perfectly valid feminist thing to say there is a certain amount of attention on a woman's appearance, and I don't wish that to be the focus or a distraction.”

Source : "We're not all ogres". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2011.

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