Jacques Barzun Quotes
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.Jacques Barzun
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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.
Tanit Phoenix -
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.
Gary Wolf -
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.
Sam Childers -
I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
Yann Martel -
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.
Sally Schneider -
I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
Kat Graham
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
Nancy Pelosi -
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.
Randy Wayne White -
All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
Rachel Dratch -
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.
Edmund White -
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.
R. A. Salvatore -
Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus
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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.
Valerie Bertinelli -
Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
Gabriela Sabatini -
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.
Rachel Sklar -
In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
Yami Gautam -
No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
P. J. O'Rourke -
We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
Patricia Ireland
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My sketchbooks are usually just a line on one page or a circle, which to most people must be totally meaningless. But to me, they are very important to the thing I am working on.
Jamie Wyeth -
My computer background is a black and white picture I took of the Niteroi Contemporary Art Museum in Brazil.
Emma Ishta -
Time and persistence has shown me that I can succeed at sharing my art with others as a musician while running my own music business. And that kind of success is as good as I could have ever wished for.
Bradley Joseph -
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
Jacques Barzun