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I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.
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Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.
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There are no principles; there are only events. There is no good and bad, there are only circumstances.
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Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.
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Don't overact the story of your name. Overact the story of your work.
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
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Bernard Leach was the one who taught us that, because he, too, had started out as a painter and an etcher and had only gotten into ceramics by chance when he was in Japan trying to teach the Japanese how to do etching, which, as he said, they were not ready for yet.
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I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, and the characters and plot come into existence as I go. I've tried doing it the other way, but for me, outlining is a waste of time because I never follow the outline.
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My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
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Never give up, no, never give up If you're looking for something easy You might as well give it up.
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I have a horror of going down dead ends, which you can easily do with a novel, spending months on it and then realising that it's all wrong. It's demoralising, because you don't get the time back.
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All of this happened while I was walking around starving in Christiania – that strange city no one escapes from until it has left its mark on him.
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There's a lot of movies about self absorbed white men and I just figured it's about time to make a movie about self absorbed black men.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I do respect people's faith, but I don't respect their manipulation of that faith in order to create fear and control.
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I do not need someone to complete me, but if you wanted to, we could walk next to each other into whatever is coming next.
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When I was still a student, I came out of a performing arts high school, and the female students who were doing traditional dance and ballet were so beautiful. They were beautiful, starting from their postures.
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I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.
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In the evening you hear the scream of bats,
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To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
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People have different takes on clothes and what to wear and colors and all that stuff, so why make a big deal about uniformity? It took me a long time to grasp that particular concept, simply because I was coming from the James Brown thing. Again, I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.
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World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.
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Although individuals may be highly intelligent, they are sometimes dogged by skepticism and doubts. They are clever, but they tend to be hesitant and skeptical and are never really able to settle down. These people are the least receptive.
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Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more different one from the other than those which revolve in infinite space, worlds which, centuries after the extinction of the fire from which their light first emanated, whether it is called Rembrandt or Vermeer, send us still each one its special radiance.
