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"But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing."
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"I did try to leave, and she came running after me."
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"Try not thinking of peeling an orange. Try not imagining the juice running down your fingers, the soft inner part of the peel. The smell. Try and you can't. The brain doesn't process negatives."
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"I'd rather be running the game than playing it."
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"You have to keep running. I always believed I was going to be safe."
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"Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running."
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"Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be."
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"We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also."
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"My running was very simple; it was out of myself."
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"The only thing I'm running for is the state line."
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"Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part."
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"And then what makes the work interesting is if you choose the right questions."
Work
"I don't like to think about being an influence. It's embarrassing."
Being
"If you really want to do it, you do it. There are no excuses."
Motivational
"But if you can find that spot - I suppose it's like running - I used to be a swimmer and swim laps, and you just have to be there with what you're doing."
Running
"I'll talk. You'll listen."
Talk
"In art, the only one who really knows whether what you've done is honest is the artist."
Art
"In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever."
Time
"If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting."
Question
"And so I put down some of the things that he said, about keeping your tools sharpened and not letting them lie on the ground where they get hurt or get abused and dirty and can't find them. And some thoughts about how his father used to do things."
Family
"Generalised anger and frustration is something that gets you in the studio, and gets you to work - though it's not necessarily evident in anything that's finished."
Anger
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