"Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody."

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Donald Barthelme

#War Quotes #World Quotes #Formal Quotes

“Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.”
“I go from a full working day to making sure I am home for dinner with my kids. I couldn't do that in a 10cm mini skirt but I am not going to resort to sweatpants and an old t-shirt.”
“My energy comes from freedom and a rebellious spirit.”
“When I'm out in public I need to be a role model for the kids. I need to be someone they can look up to or portray themselves as.”
“Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“If you get called on to help somebody pull focus to some good cause, that's good use of your fame. I don't try to avoid that.”
“Couples should keep their love pure before it poisons the purest love of all - that between them and their children”

Source : "The Other Wife: A Novel in Verse". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2003.
“So, my style has hopefully changed over the years and it is more relaxed, and I do tend to smile and have more than one expression these days hopefully - which I didn't at the beginning.”

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