Emily Carr Quotes
I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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There's monsters in all of us, but there's also vulnerability.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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One has to be fully committed to one's career. Otherwise, there's no point.
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There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
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A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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They're making a song and dance because that serves their immediate interests. But what will happen tomorrow? They will have to pay salaries and pensions.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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The study titled 'Impact of Immigration on Wages, by Education Level, 1994-2007' found that increased immigration had an effect of lowering wages for earlier immigrants by an average of 4.6 percent. Running counter to popular perception is the finding that for native-born Americans, wages actually increased by 0.6 percent.
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Between the ages of twenty and fifty, John Doe spends some twenty thousand hours chewing and swallowing food, more than eight hundred days and nights of steady eating. The mere contemplation of this fact is upsetting enough.
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I'm liver than Jay, Davy, and Kathy and Regis, been on more MTV shows than Butthead and Beavis.
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There is another sort of day which needs celebrating in song -- the day of days when spring at last holds up her face to be kissed, deliberate and unabashed. On that day no wind blows either in the hills or in the mind.
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I don't belong to any school or clique or ghetto. I don't have any preconceived ideas. I'm trying to serve a story and not a genre or a style.
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I think that one's art is a growth inside one. I do not think one can explain growth. It is silent and subtle. One does not keep digging up a plant to see how it grows.
