Douglas Sirk Quotes
I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.
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Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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People assume that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
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In my heart, I'm 100% real. You can't pull out nothing in my past that can say I'm not 100% real.
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I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
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Nothing changes and very little happens in Paris. This is a great place to work without distraction - and then I run away to New York, where I have a life!
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I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
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It's great when women support women. We need more women out there supporting women.
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Irish history having been forbidden in schools, has been, to a great extent, learned from Raftery's poems by the people of Mayo, where he was born, and of Galway, where he spent his later years.
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Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
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Almost everything The Beatles did was great, and it's hard to improve on. They were our Bach. The way to get around it may be to keep it as simple as possible.
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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
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Don’t misuse the pencil and don’t torment the paper.
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I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment camps in the United States.
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I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.
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I think the great artists, especially in literature, have always thought with the heart.
