
1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)
Source: Dreamfever
1970s, BOBBY FISCHER SPEAKS OUT! (1977)
“I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own tastes.”
Quote by Harriet & Sidney Janis in 'Marchel Duchamp: Anti-Artist' in View magazine 3/21/45; reprinted in Robert Motherwell, Dada Painters and Poets (1951)
1921 - 1950
Variant: I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste.
“Force yourself to explain it and you create lies.”
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
Early in 1976, speaking to Margaret Trudeau, according to page 317 of Just Watch Me: The Life of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1968-2000 https://books.google.ca/books?id=ACC_G_kiR4cC&pg=PA317&lpg=PA317 by John English.
“I have my big-boy pants on right now. I'm trying not to cry!”
Interview Quotes, 68th Golden Globes Speech (2011)