Dennis C. Blair Quotes
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There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Sometimes a movie encapsulates a period or a moment in all of our lives in such a way that it never dies.
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You never know what can happen in football. It's football.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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The culture is eating nature; it's overpowering storytelling. Movies are turning into games - it's abut the image, not nuance.
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The first important movie that I did, I shaved my head for the movie. When the hair grew back, I had white hair for the first time in my life.
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Texas has waited too long for a governor who knows that quid pro quo shouldn't be the status quo. It's time for a governor who believes that you don't have to buy a place in Texas' future.
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The secret of a good marriage is forgiving your partner for marrying you in the first place.
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Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
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The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves.
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I want to protect my life. I don't want my life to become a reality show.
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The enhanced features of our ad products would require sufficient understanding from our sales force, advertisers, and agencies. To facilitate this, we have held multiple training sessions internally and road show events externally.
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I am not like my image; I take my work so seriously. Everyone thinks I just bounce in, but I study and everything has to be just right.
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I love women. I'm trying to do beautiful things with them. I'm not trying to insult them. My life is not about that.
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Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realised by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good.
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I got into the whole Ayurvedic thing. It was really cool.
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The above interpretation has been introduced, not on account of its immediate value in the present system, but as an illustration of a significant fact in the philosophy of the intellectual powers, viz., that what has commonly been regarded as the fundamental axiom of metaphysics is but the consequence of a law of thought, mathematical in its form.
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Between the two men, somewhere, a truth is lying, and that is what I try to find.
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Our scientific world is our world of reasoning. It has its greatness and uses and attractions. We are ready to pay homage due to it. But when it claims to have discovered the real world for us and laughs at the worlds of all simple-minded men, then we must say it is like a general grown intoxicated with his power, usurping the throne of his king
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Wherever we may be, or whatever our circumstances, the Lord Jesus sees them. We are never beyond the reach of His care.
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The information gained from these techniques was valuable in some instances, but there is no way of knowing whether the same information could have been obtained through other means.
