I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Andy WarholRead
I love it when you ask actors, 'What are you Doing now?' and they say 'I'm between roles'. To be living 'life between roles' that's my favorite
Interpretation
This quote reflects the idea of embracing the moments between significant events in life, rather than just focusing on the main achievements.
Andy Warhol highlights the beauty of the in-between moments of life, suggesting that the time spent waiting or 'being between roles' is valuable in its own right. It encourages us to appreciate the transitions and pauses that occur in our lives, as they often shape our experiences and perspectives just as much as the roles we actively play.
In practice
In a speech about personal growth and the value of downtime.
I really do live for the future, because when I'm eating a box of candy, I can't wait to taste the last piece.
Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.
I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art
I never wanted to be a painter; I wanted to be a tap dancer.
I like to be the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. But usually being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space is worth it, because something funny always happens.
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.
You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.
Ravens are the birds I'll miss most when I die. If only the darkness into which we must look were composed of the black light of their limber intelligence. If only we did not have to die at all. Instead, become ravens.
If you don't want to live a life where you go to a job every day just so you can enjoy your weekends and get two weeks of vacation every year, then don't do it.
I think there's something that happens at 40 where you settle into your own skin and you stop caring what people think - you realize life is a gift from God and you want to live it to the fullest.
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