"Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now."

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Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

Frank Stella

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“I think Captain Cousteau might be the father of the environmental movement.”
“God is, of course, a terrifying reality. I had thought that I knew all about God, and had Him in a pigeon hole. But I met Him at the corner of a street -- He entered my mind with a bang, and nearly burst my head open.”

Source : Wyndham Lewis (1956). “The Red Priest”, London, Methuen
“What makes me myself rather than anyone else is the very fact that I am poised between two countries, two or three languages, and several cultural traditions. It is precisely this that defines my identity. Would I exist more authentically if I cut off a part of myself”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2001). “In the Name of Identity: Violence and the Need to Belong”, p.1, Arcade Publishing
“Being on a Michael Bay set is... well, it's the only set I've ever been on. But I would imagine there's no set that's run quite like it. It's big, it's loud, it's powerful, it's intense, it's dirty, it's hot, it's sweaty - and it's really exciting. There's never a dull moment; there's never a quiet moment.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I hate being called lazy, so when everybody gets up at half seven in the morning, I'm up at the same time. Everyone goes to work and I'll do a few hours of writing, then I'll mess about for a bit and come back to it. By the time I go home I'm done. I think it's really good to keep that kind of a routine with writing. I find that when I don't do that, it's really hard to get back into that headspace of writing.”
“Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.”
“There's a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and letting out that's a perfect zero you can go into. There's a rest point between the heart muscle's close and open - an instant of keenest living when you're momentarily dead. You can rest there.”
“I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my BA from NYU in Art History. I initially gravitated towards singing. Acting sort of sprang out of that as a means to participate in musicals.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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