Jacques Maritain Quotes
The hope of the coming of a new Christian era in our civilization is to my mind a hope for a distant future, a very distant future.
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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It was a pleasure to meet President Obama and Michelle. I'm not a political person, but I admire what he has done.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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I like being unconventional.
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Twenty is a wonderful age for things to be sparked.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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I'm from New York. My grandparents were settlers of Long Island City. When they came here, there was no bridge, and they had to hire a boat across the river. They had a farm, and my grandmother had to go once a week to Manhattan to buy provisions - very primitive.
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
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I think American audiences like gangster movies. You know, it's part of the culture.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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By having the big lines of the composition going out of the canvas, your imagination can wander beyond the edge. It will make it seem part of a large composition.
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If poetry and the arts do anything, they can fortify your inner life, your inwardness.
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I do still sit back and wonder when I'm in LA if this is all really true or is it all kid-on. But it's great. I always bear in mind that the right place and time have a huge deal to do with it, and there are hugely talented actors who haven't had that break.
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I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.
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The hope of the coming of a new Christian era in our civilization is to my mind a hope for a distant future, a very distant future.
