Democritus Quotes
In the weightiest matters we must go to school to the animals, and learn spinning and weaving from the spider, building from the swallow, singing from the birds,-from the swan and the nightingale, imitating their art.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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It's always strange being a kid on the set, because you're treated like an equal when you're working. But then when you break, the other actors go back to their trailers to take naps and drink beer, and I have to, like, go do school.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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When I was 12, my feet were so small, I wore my sisters' glitter shoes. My dad would whoop me: 'You're not going to school now, you'll embarrass us!'
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I've done loads of things people have never seen - dramas on BBC4 and plays upstairs at the Royal Court and the Bush - and because I didn't go to drama school, they gave me an education.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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Gingers get a bad rep. They get teased at school. So we should feel sorry for them.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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Putting is not an art, it's a dreaded evil. No wise man ever said that.
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But the business side of it, as with most creative things, there is no room for business. It is about art. It's not about marketing.
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Every step, whether at high school or at college or at the NFL, I had to climb and crawl and scratch to get there.
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I would definitely love to continue acting, and I also really enjoy school, so I would like to balance the two somehow.
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I didn't want to be an actress. I wasn't trying to be in film or an art gallery for me.
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My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.
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The truth is that I've always wanted to be an actor, ever since I was a child. I used to see these English movies which were shown to us in our school every Saturday, and then I used to enact the hero's part in my head.
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Whereas fiction is a continual discovery of what one wants to say, what one feels, what one means, and is, in that sense, a performance art, biography requires different skills - research and organization.
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At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.
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The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.
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I think it's a Blondie tradition that all of our albums sort of have a wide spread of styles.
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The odd thing is if you asked me to do the accent now I would find it very difficult unless I was also playing that part, because I associate it so much with entering into the role and stepping into someone else's shoes.
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I'll never stop appreciating how lucky I am.
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In the weightiest matters we must go to school to the animals, and learn spinning and weaving from the spider, building from the swallow, singing from the birds,-from the swan and the nightingale, imitating their art.
