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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We were sharecroppers - we were a little bit of everything. We farmed and tried to make something.
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In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.
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I don't think we missed America by that much. It was a huge-volume election that didn't turn overwhelmingly one way or another, which was what we said was going to happen. There were some nuances, but I don't think we missed that much.
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Yes; my brother Bobby used to distribute records at King Records. I had a job there, too, packing records up and shipping them off. But I always wanted to play sessions at Stax, so I figured out a way to do it.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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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.
