Irving Stone Quotes
I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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To me, presentations are the most powerful device. You can't really name a movement that didn't start with the spoken word.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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TV is like a school. It is easy to shoot for a film. In movies, you have a definite start and end. You know your character is there for a particular period.
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The most important thing to strive for in life is some kind of personal and professional achievement. Not as a man or a woman, but as a person.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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I don't think there's any such thing as teaching people photography, other than influencing them a little. People have to be their own learners. They have to have a certain talent.
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I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
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When I go out and I'm presenting the best side of myself, I want to look different from everyone, but I don't want it to look like I'm wearing a costume.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Hopefully, film inspires you to think about human nature. It make us consider how we treat strangers and our most intimate.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
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My older sister Celia is an actress as well. She's a little bit older than me. So, in my formative years, she was always performing, and we would always go see her do things. And so, that just made me want to be... like her. Maybe if she was an Olympic swimmer, I would probably be an Olympic swimmer by now as well!
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The number of opera houses around the world and the high attendance rates show that opera an art form that is more popular than ever.
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There is that elementary principle of organization in any art that nothing gets in anything else's way, and everything is at its own limit of possibilities.
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Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
