James Schuyler Quotes
The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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We are hopeful that President Obama, in his State of the Union Address, will express a willingness to work with Republicans to enact all of these jobs bills.
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Most actors don't grow up with sweet, vanilla parents.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
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The death of Abdel Nasser on September 28, 1970, was an irreversible setback for Egypt.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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There's a kind of numbness, a sameness, a lack of motivation in 'good job' culture.
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Women are outperforming men in almost every sphere of life in our society and the women of East Indian ancestry are no exception to this rule. They have broken the cultural mould.
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The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
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When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier.
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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Nastassja Kinski -
I've always known that Rio and Tokyo are my two Olympics. Now that Rio hasn't gone to plan, Tokyo has to work, and I'm more motivated than ever.
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When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.
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As he had so many times before, Taleswapper addressed a few silent words to God, which always came down to this question: Why do you put us to so much trouble, when it all comes to naught in the end?...And, as usual, God had nothing much to say to Taleswapper when his questioning was done.
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Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
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I just don't live my life in a world where I am not feeling my best, and feeling my best is feeling sexy.
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Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live.
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Justice, I think, is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accomodations concretely.
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The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.
