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"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."
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"I remember Mitch Miller saying every week, This rock and roll stuff will never last. But one doesn't like to bring that up to Mitch."
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"Ronald Reagan used to alarm his Soviet counterparts by saying that surely they'd both unite against an invasion from Mars."
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"Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually."
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"You cannot have your cake and eat it."
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"Poe's saying that a long poem is a sequence of short ones is perfectly just."
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"Fat is a way of saying no to powerlessness and self-denial."
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"Everyone has highs and lows that they have to learn from, but every morning I start off with a good head on my shoulders, saying to myself, 'It's going to be a good day!'."
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
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"There's a saying among prospectors: 'Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find.'"
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"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of an expert saying it can't be done."
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"But I think you have to - whatever the environment looks like, it does enter into people's art work one way or another; it's very remote or it isn't. It's remote in my work but it has to have a certain degree of ordinariness."
Art
"There's probably more in the American tradition than people give the place credit for."
People
"The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years."
Work
"After all, the work isn't the point; the piece is."
Work
"I recognize very much in Hopper that it does look like the United States; it looks like the 30's and my first impressions of everything, all of which I have to deal with and which gets mixed up in my work and probably gets mixed up in everybody else's work too."
Work
"I think some of the things I deal with Hopper probably has dealt with also, since it's somewhat the same environment and I have pretty strong reactions to what this country looks like. It looks pretty dull and spare, and you like this and dislike it and it's very complicated."
Nation
"Well, I think there are artists who are more or less contemporary with Hopper who are more relevant."
Art
"The attitude and capacity of the factory, the old metal table and the new ideas of the wooden furniture quickly and naturally suggested the possibility of metal furniture."
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"Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they're saying that certain familiar things aren't there, and they're seeing a couple maybe that are left, which they count as a couple, that's all."
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"I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting."
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