David Shields Quotes
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.David Shields
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
Cameron Bright -
My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
Salvatore Quasimodo -
I love the early films of Al Pacino - 'Scarface,' 'Serpico' - and I love many science-fiction films.
Ornella Muti -
As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
Tavi Gevinson -
Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
R. Lee Ermey
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
Vance Havner -
I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
Dan Jenkins -
Some people remaster their records six, seven times, remix it three, four times, spend a million hours, then they always go back and hear a demo of it and they'll say, 'Aw that sounds so much better than the final mix.'
Jack White The White Stripes -
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
Aaron Stanford -
Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
Olivia Newton-John -
My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
Patrick White
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
Dak Prescott -
There are varieties of Spanglish. There's Spanglish spoken by Cuban Americans in Miami called cubonics is different from Mexican American Spanglish, but thanks to the Internet, thanks to radio and television, thanks to what is happening in the classrooms, in the streets in the restaurants, we are finding a middle ground.
Ilan Stavans -
I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
Adam Carolla -
I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
Fernando Botero -
I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
Rachel Platten -
I just have the normal ringtone, unfortunately.
Washed Out
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Art can only be truly art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life.
Margaret Fuller -
Running back was always my favorite position.
Barry Sanders -
I'm quite confident with the way that I look but you find something else to focus on don't you if, I mean I, I have body issues that's my thing so you find something to focus on when you're a perfectionist, I think.
Natalie Imbruglia -
In a man, I like funny guys. A guy who doesn't have a lot of therapy, who's mature. A man, not a boy.
Maura Tierney -
Art, like science, progresses, and to me it's bizarre that a lot of acclaimed and popular and respectable books are not advancing the art form.
David Shields