Derek Walcott Quotes
Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'
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Together with international unity and resolve we can meet the challenge of this global scourge and work to bring about an international law of zero tolerance for terrorism.
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There was a time when I was practicing law in New York and I wanted to find something else to do. So I ended up leaving the practice of law to pursue my art and it just happened to be out of Lego bricks.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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If you gonna challenge my ways, know my history. Don't put nobody in my face that don't know about me, or they here to write an article on someone they thought was hot when they was hot. Come on, man. I been hot.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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I have always been the same player, but Conte knows how to treat players, having played at the highest level himself.
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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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I'm going to do anything I can do - whether that's being part of FIFA or creating some sort of movement that can actually impart real equality across all lines - in every country, every city, every sector all over the world, that's what I'm going to do.
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
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My motivation for being a good drummer was born out of fear, which, in a way, seems so antithetical to what art should be.
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I am by trade a designer, and I did Fine Art for my degree.
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Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.
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I love making healthy lean foods delicious - that's an art!
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If only life could be a little more tender and art a little more robust.
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Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.
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I bought abandon dear And sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.
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Comedy is so hard; it's so much harder than drama. The pacing of it, the energy of it.
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Like any art, what is the most imprisoning thing is also the most delivering thing. If an actor knows he only has 12 syllables in a line, the challenge is, 'How can I interpret the meaning and contain it without going one syllable over?'
