Edgar Degas Quotes
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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Whatever you want to do in the industry, do it on the smallest level at first. If you want to be a writer, write a screenplay in your house. If you want to be an actor, put on a one-man show. If you want to be a stand-up comedian, go to an open mic.
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I've just come back from Mississippi and over there when you talk about the West Bank they think you mean Arkansas.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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I was asking Charlie the most important questions, and you heard the answers.
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The beautiful thing about working with new instruments is that you sort of approach it with a fresh perspective.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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Whatever your image is, it's probably not you, but it affords you the freedom to live up to it.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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It's fascinating to see actors who do voiceovers every day.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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When I was younger, I had no interest. But after I went to Paris to see the collections for the first time a few years ago, they made a huge impression on me. I realized that fashion is an art form, like acting or painting.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions.
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The hardest thing in the world, I now know, is to hold in your head that it is okay to think that you are right, but not to think so necessarily because everyone who disagrees with you is wrong or stupid or duped or bad.
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The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
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Personality is everything in art and poetry.
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At one point the driver said, 'For God's sakes, you're rocking the boat back there.' Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
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Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
