Emily Carr Quotes
I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
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Experience by itself is not science.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I've always been excited by rotoscoping, the technique used in films like 'Waking Life,' which fuses animation with real-life emotion. It seemed like it was a process ripe for innovation.
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I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.
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Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.
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Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and go to work.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
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I'm a 3rd degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and 2nd degree in karate, and I'm a licensed bodyguard.
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Coltrane was moving out of jazz into something else. And certainly Miles Davis was doing the same thing.
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Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.
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Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.
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Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
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I sat staring, staring, staring - half lost, learning a new language or rather the same language in a different dialect. So still were the big woods where I sat, sound might not yet have been born.
