David Elliott Quotes
Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
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There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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Every question is a hypothetical question for everyone but the person who asks it.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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I want to let fans know how much I appreciate them and how much I appreciate them showing interest in our music and me personally.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.
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Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?
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Science begins with the world we have to live in, accepting its data and trying to explain its laws. From there, it moves toward the imagination: it becomes a mental construct, a model of a possible way of interpreting experience. The further it goes in this direction, the more it tends to speak the language of mathematics, which is really one of the languages of the imagination, along with literature and music. Art, on the other hand, begins with the world we construct, not with the world we see. It starts with the imagination, and then works toward ordinary experience.
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Here's my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don't say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.
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Language alone includes all the senses in interplay at all times. (p. 253)
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There are some people who are just plain great at making music. That's not who I am.
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Unless you are a born connoisseur of art, you will not be able to judge by yourself why certain art is superior to other art.
