Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes
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I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal.
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A lot of these people were getting to where they didn't need help anymore. You have to start all over again.
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
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I think many people are finding things I do very funny and strange.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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The more I've gotten interested in writing about history and making sense of myself within the continuum of history, the more I've turned to paintings, to art. I look to the imagery of art to help me understand something about my own place in the world.
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I have a biology degree, okay?
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That's what being a footballer is, really: you train at this time, you finish at that time, then you do that, then you go home, then you're not allowed out, then you do this... there comes a point in your career - about thirty, thirty-one - when you get a bit sick of being screamed at.
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I said that when I establish myself as an artist that can do pretty much anything I want to do in music, I'm going to make a country album.
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My dad grew up in a mud hut and studied by candlelight. He was 14 when he got a scholarship to Russia. He was super clever - the cleverest person. He landed in 5ft of snow, and was alone at 14, studying science and engineering. He didn't have a bed, and he slept on a table.
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The Spanish troops returned and we could yet discover the grass beaten down in the direction which they went.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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The medical system in the United States is among the best in the world, if not the best. What if we were to make the United States a medical destination? That would bring a lot of people here because there are a lot of sick people around the world. If they can get U.S. treatment, they will take it, but now think about what that will do.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - just think of an incurable disease such as an inoperable cancer - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.
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Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.
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Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.
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Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.
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Everyone in my industry, the movie industry, is looking at the music industry and going, 'How do we avoid that collapse?' And I don't know if you can, to be quite honest!
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I do all the classics, like Dylan, Kristofferson, Jimmy Reed, Mexican mariachi songs, some jazz songs from the '30s. Cole Porter's 'Begin the Beguine,' that's one of my favorites.
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There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.
