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Ian Hamilton Finlay

"However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really."

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"However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really."

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Akshay Vasu

"With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!"

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Akshay Vasu

"I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations."

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Akshay Vasu

"The rest of my work, besides sketching and keeping a diary, which was the most troublesome of all, consisted in making geological and zoological collections."

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Akshay Vasu

"If you can find your perfect job, create one."

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Akshay Vasu

"Salary is the currency that is gotten from mortgaging your life and time."

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Akshay Vasu

"Anytime we can take narcotics off the street it is significant because it takes them out of the hands of children. It certainly is not going to stop the drug problem, we have to work very, very hard."

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Akshay Vasu

"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."

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Akshay Vasu

"For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work."

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Akshay Vasu

"I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital."

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Akshay Vasu

"The artist likes to seem totally responsible for his work. Often he begins to explain it, to make it appear as if it were a reasonable process."

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time."

Time

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is."

People

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public."

Gardening

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really."

Work

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"No, I don't make my work in order to challenge or confuse other people's expectations - I only do what I find natural."

Work

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture."

Trust

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one."

Man

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"Little Sparta is a garden in the traditional sense. It is perhaps not like other modern gardens, but I think that other times would have had no difficulty with it."

Art

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes."

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Ian Hamilton Finlay
"For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not."

Poetry

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