Karen Blixen Quotes
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All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
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Hamish and I rarely go to launches or parties any more but prefer to spend our time hanging out together.
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In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get – The Future!
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The art world is never going to be popular like the NFL, but more people are buying art and I think that's cushioning, to a great extent, our art-market cycles.
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I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music.
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My favorite museums are things like the Frick Museum in New York and the Huntington Hartford in Pasadena where it's someone's home that you walk through.
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I'm still learning a lot as a songwriter. I try to write down and make a note of ideas that I cross paths with on a day-to-day basis, whether it be a conversation or something I hear on the radio, seeing a movie, or just thoughts in my head as I'm walking down the street.
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Foreign capital to build new cinemas will help modernize China's aging cinema infrastructure, attract Chinese consumers back into cinemas, and increase demand for U.S. films.
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Everyone, left to his own devices, forms an idea about what goes on in language which is very far from the truth.
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My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out.
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I travel with a lot of clothes, which is a really bad idea because it's such a nightmare to travel. I always overpack because I like to bring things with me, and I accumulate stuff, so it piles up. I travel with everything I own.
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When you're young, you don't feel iconoclastic - you're just kind of doing what seems natural, what moves you.
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I'll read a script maybe twice, but I'll think about the role more than I'll rehearse lines.
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I used to like the word of the day and when I read, highlight words that I didn't know and look them up.
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You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
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Design, to me, is part psychology, part sociology, and part magic. A good decorator should know what's going on in someone's marriage and how their kids are doing in school.
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I've played soccer since I was five.
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It is G.E. Moore at the spinet.
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I don't know why, but audiences are often sympathetic to thieves. Sometimes they are more sympathetic to thieves then they are to earnest people. What does that say about society?
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One of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.
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I consider lace to be one of the prettiest imitations ever made of the fantasy of nature; lace always evokes for me those incomparable designs which the branches and leaves of trees embroider across the sky, and I do not think that any invention of the human spirit could have a more graceful or precise origin.
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All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
