I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.


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It is not necessary to be too avant-garde, because you risk not being understood.
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Avant-garde is French for bullshit
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The avant-garde makes more sense to me.
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Innovation, being avant garde, is always polemic.
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The avant-garde of anything, never won any popularity contests....
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Make the stage an actor
Make an actor the stage.
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Avant-garde art is yoga for the mind.
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I think the avant-garde often hides itself in the highly incomprehensible because they are frustrate...
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I don't appreciate avant-garde, electronic music. It makes me feel quite ill.
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What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can ...
ADRIEN BRODY
No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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The cutting edge dulls very quickly.
THOMAS SCHUMACHER
[he]. . . hated God . . . actually, he just hated Christians . . . He never met God. Why should he c...
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The world is still new . . . it seems old to us, but only seems because our lives are so short . . ....
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There is a place for visionaries and the avant-garde in this world, but not at 9 o'clock on a ne...
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Avant-garde music is sort of research music. You're glad someone's done it but you don't necessarily...
BRIAN ENO
We have this long history of avant-garde work or at least nontraditional works.
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There is absolutely no point in not being a populist. What I feel emboldened to do is to take someth...
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Many say that no real avant-garde - which I'll define as a combative group of free-thinking arti...
MARGO JEFFERSON
O masses, o masses! When will you assume the image and likeness of your avant-garde?
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That's a beautiful speech, but nobody's listening. Let's go.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-g...
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We should all be involved in the avant-garde as long as we look toward the past.
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In Europe it evolved out of a whole intellectual process. The European intellectuals were and are ve...
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Classicism becomes avant-garde when everyone else is doing their utmost to develop new stylistic for...
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Break down the barriers. Just let go and bury it.
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The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attra...
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I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It's like people see H...
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As a teenager, I wanted to be sophisticated and avant-garde, and I was really judgmental. But when y...
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When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I...
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I hate the terminology of 'costume' because my clothes are not costumes at all. I think they...
CHRISTIAN SIRIANO
I remember my mother taking me to see the Picasso show in the 1940s, and I was impressed by the life...
RICHARD ROGERS
Daring to wear something different takes effort.
MIUCCIA PRADA
As to the euro zone avant-garde, it must go towards more solidarity and integration: a common budget...
EMMANUEL MACRON
[Though it does a good job of showing off some of the leading talents who work just outside the jazz...
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It's so easy for some people to get naked. They think they're so promiscuous and avant-garde and reb...
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year...
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I like to be dressy casual. I wear jeans and nice sneakers. I wear nice clothes, but not super dress...
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Music is a continuum and the modern and avant-garde composers of today will be part of the standard ...
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Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
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Everyone knew what the night would bring lots of D and A plenty of T and A
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The play takes place on a ramp, hanging from a ramp, below a ramp, and to the sides of a ramp.
ROSALYN DREXLER
Why can't a tree be called Pluplusch?
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If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.
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When I came to New York in 1949, there was already an entire fresh avant-garde film movement bloomin...
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When I started making dances in the '60s, narrative dance was sort of off the radar screen. What...
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The most popular flavors are coconut, strawberry and Thai tea. But I will also have things like taro...
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Women tend to wear clothes that are too tight, and men tend to wear clothes that are too loose.
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I always wanted to experience what performance would be like without the fourth wall, so I formed a ...
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I don't like to be too submissive in the way I dress. I like quite boyish things, so I hardly ev...
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It's definitely not a panic mode. It may seem like a panic mode, but it was only our second preseaso...
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FitFam do not live forever. They live to the fullest.
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If I were a bird, I will have no feet.
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Most of my avant garde fashion is saved for my videos and for the stage. In real life, I tend toward...
JANE BADLER
Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture ...
RYAN KAVANAUGH
The word "avant-garde," for example, despite its note of impartiality, generally serves to dismiss-a...
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero...
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We're dedicated to supporting mainstream jazz, and we don't veer too far off from that. But we do sp...
CAROL STONE
Look, I'm not a perfect person. I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. I we...
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I find inspiration in what artists and regular people on the street wear, but I'm also very infl...
KYGO
Crummy pictures, live appearances, circuses, avant garde theater, dinner theater. I've done it a...
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At the same time, once again we have tried for a good mix of Hollywood films, independent films and ...
ETHAN VAN THILLO
It's easy to make something avant garde. To do something in the traditional way is much more bra...
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Most of the bad things that happen seem to stem from alcohol, and that is reflected as we go through...
KATHY MACLACHLAN
The stories are not autobiographical, but they're personal in that way. I seem to know only the thin...
ALICE MUNRO
Well the press and things like that are pretty hard core, but I don't pay too much attention to that...
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Early on, a story's meaning and rationale seem pretty obvious, but then, as I write it, I realiz...
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Aye, well, I've got my garden.
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I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
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I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
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I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
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Married to the Mob.
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I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
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throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
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I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
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I love to do glamorous things, like wear Valentino.
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