Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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I wouldn't wear tiny amounts of clothing in my real life so I don't think it's necessary to wear that stuff in photo-shoots.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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I believe that stories find writers, writers don't find stories. With the 'Pendragon' series, I actually had multiple story ideas and decided that instead of writing them individually, I would create a character whose journey would thread them all together.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.
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Movies I liked growing up were like Francis Ford Coppolla movies and Scorsese movies.
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Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
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Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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I really, really enjoy comedy. I think that's one of my strong suits. It's my zone. And people don't expect it from me, which is a whammy.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I think that, a lot of times in Hollywood pictures, the reality, the messy reality of women's lives - it's avoided, because I think people are just afraid of it. There's a standard that women are set to, to try to keep everybody comfortable.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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And since geometry is the right foundation of all painting, I have decided to teach its rudiments and principles to all youngsters eager for art.
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I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.
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Marcus Aurelius appoints personal character and conscience the ultimate refuge of happiness-seekers: the only place where dreams of happiness, doomed to die childless and intestate anywhere else, are not bound to be frustrated.
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I feel French is very close to Urdu. Both languages are beautiful. Sadly, their beauty is lost in translation.
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Sex is a commodity just like anything else.
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Enjoying praise is in some people merely a civility of the heart--and just the opposite of a vanity of the spirit.
