James Fenton Quotes
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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There are moments when I can't believe I'm as old as I am. But I feel better physically than I did 10 years ago. I don't think, Oh God, I'm missing something.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
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I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time.
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I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
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I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.
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Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.
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I remember the first year at the Game Developers Conference I wore these big red giant knee-high boots. Nobody cared. You can wear anything you love, because that's what you do in games. You make yourself who you want to be.
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I don't know many South Africans who don't have their eyes wide open to what it's like to be exposed to some sort of violence. The question is whether we choose to be cynical about it or not.
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Rights presuppose duties, if they are not to become mere licence
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Ridicule is the deadliest weapon of the age.
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Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.
