A Quote by Simone Elkeles

and the bananas are overdone. — © Simone Elkeles
and the bananas are overdone.

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At the opening of our exhibition at Deitch Projects in New York we featured a wall of 10,000 bananas. Green bananas created a pattern against a background of yellow bananas spelling out the sentiment: Self-confidence produces fine results. After a number of days the green bananas turned yellow too and the type disappeared. When the yellow background bananas turned brown, the type (and the self-confidence) appeared again, only to go away when all bananas turned brown.
And they have a display of bananas, which are not bananas but called plantains and are more like a potato pretending to be a banana.
I've heard that fact, that is you eat more than six bananas it will kill you. I saw a bowl with seven bananas in it and I thought, that's dangerous.
I always think like I was born in the country where everybody ate apples. Then I ended up in the country where everybody eats bananas. So now, I eat bananas so long, I'm just remembering the apples.
Mrs. Daugherty was keeping my bowl of cream of wheat hot, and she had a special treat with it, she said. It was bananas. In the whole story of the world, bananas have never once been a special treat.
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman dying in the street will share her banana with anyone who needs it, whereas in America, people amass and hoard as many bananas as they can to sell for an exorbitant profit. So half of them go bad, anyway.
I was familiar with Lovecraft, I also was familiar with his history as a person. So I had read his stories but I wasn't bananas like I think that a lot of people get bananas. I was like, they're good and I can definitely see the influences - but I can definitely read them and see the parts where you're being racist right there in your own stories.
The deathmatch thing is overdone.
If anything can be done, it can be overdone is my point of view.
Whatever is done by design is always overdone.
From 'Chappelle's Show' to 'Tosh.0,' there's so much race comedy. It's overdone.
[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.
My style is colloquial storytelling. It's the way we tell stories to one another - it's not writerly, it's not overdone.
Themes on some TV shows are overdone. That 'Playhouse 90' theme music was an example.
I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.
At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.
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