Charles Ives Quotes
There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
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The public's nerves are raw and edgy. You have to be discreet and understanding about the films you are showing.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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I love rap because it talks about pain that comes authentically from the ghetto. It moves me.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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As a child, I was hyper, I was a clown and I was sensitive. Today I'm all of the above, except I've refrained from bouncing off the walls.
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The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I've served on the International Relations Committee.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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We found the appetite for 'Frontline' has only grown as the digital landscape has exploded. The appetite for the reporting we do on our digital platforms to the short films we're doing for our Facebook and YouTube channels. And we're still producing these remarkable long-form films.
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How does a person feel when looking at the sky? He thinks that he doesn't have enough tongues to describe what he sees. Nevertheless, people have never stopping describing the sky, simply listing what they see.
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In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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I always knew I was a writer. And I always thought to myself, 'Well, why not me?' Someone has to be on the best-seller list, 'Why not me?' Someone has to write for the 'New Yorker,' 'Why not me?' And I didn't really get much positive reinforcement as a kid, so I thought, 'Well let me show you what I can do.'
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When two hypotheses are possible, we provisionally choose that which our minds adjudge to be simpler, on the supposition that this is the more likely to lead in the direction of truth. It includes as a special case the principle of Occam's razor-entia non multiplicana praeter necessitatem.
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The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
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Do not go through life like leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
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Though some will try to deny it, I believe that every woman, at some time in her life, has had or will have the desire to pose nude.
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There can be nothing exclusive about substantial art. It comes directly out of the heart of the experience of life and thinking about life and living life.
