Lafcadio Hearn Quotes
A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
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Form can only be destroyed accidentally, i.e., on account of its connexion with substance, the true nature of which consists in the property of never being without a disposition to receive form.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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I said a long time ago that Foursquare can make cities better. You have these augmented realities like Foursquare and Twitter and Facebook that provide these virtual nodes and instant feedback from anywhere, adding annotation around a physical places.
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I do not deal with threats and ultimatums.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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But eventually it is a game of cricket.
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I was on Kanye's Yeezus tour as a dancer, but really, I was a Vanessa Beecroft model. I was one of the three 'dancers' who couldn't dance and was more of an accessory than an individual. Vanessa was pretty involved. Her style is about a lot of standing. It's very simple but haunting.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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They are more beautiful than anything in the world, kinetic sculptures, perfect form in motion.
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Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Corporal punishment is as humiliating for him who gives it as for him who receives it; it is ineffective besides. Neither shame nor physical pain have any other effect than a hardening one.
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You think you know what love is - until you have a child and discover that unconditional mother love.
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You've got to make sure that you don't have an airbrushed picture making you look like a 15-year-old cherub when your lyrics suggest otherwise.
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Get it out of your head that wine’s just a drink. Real wine is like a missing human gene. It vaccinates you against mundanity, against bad life.
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I actually got into music because of art and because of skateboarding: All those graphics and punk bands and fanzines - they were glued together in my brain.
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A proof of really great art is that it is generally true - it seldom falls into the misapprehensions to which minor art is liable.
