Jane Alexander Quotes
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~ Jane Alexander Quote
I began to think, The endowment has had a bad reputation in the last few years, and that's unfair.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
There are two parts to the creative endeavor: making something, then disseminating it.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
Senator Helms might very well do that. I would point out to him that we in the art world are not necessarily in the business of making controversial art.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
Most of our funding goes to organizations and is then used to leverage the private sector.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
You have to have the ability to persevere, to get knocked down and get back up again. Just talent isn't enough.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
All I want to do is make sure that art is available to all Americans in a participatory way, whether you engage in the art process yourself or you're an audience member.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
It would be difficult, in this day and age, to fund art that made racial slurs.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
If a panel feels that a grant is worthy and they know the content of the work of art in question, we at the endowment will be prepared to defend it.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
Things come up suddenly these days, but that's all right because I work better under pressure.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
I never thought of myself as pretty as a child and I have tried to bring that awareness to my roles.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
Well, in the 1990 reauthorization legislation, there was a phrase that said we do not fund obscenity as defined by a court of law.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
I don't know how one actually would define obscenity. I'm sure the definition is different according to the age one is living in.
~ Jane Alexander Quote
