Jacques Barzun Quotes
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
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I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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It does not matter what film you're making. If you're young and there's romance in the movie, it's compared to 'Twilight'.
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He Obama lost the popular vote by a lot and won the election. We should have a revolution in this country! The phoney sic electoral college made a laughing stock out of our nation. The loser one!
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art.
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I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
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Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
