James Whistler Quotes
The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to interfere with their work. I don't want them to interfere with mine.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.
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The physical ego serves as its own worst enemy when, by delusive material behavior, it eclipses its true nature as the ever blessed soul.
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That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he will not put more on me than I can bear. And so I always say, 'Lord, I trust you with me.' So I figure, anything that happens in my life, I must be able to bear it, or he wouldn't allow it to happen.
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I think that art is still a site for resistance and for the telling of various stories, for validating certain subjectivities we normally overlook. I'm trying to be affective, to suggest changes, and to resist what I feel are the tyrannies of social life on a certain level.
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Success is the sweetest revenge.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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I always read the translator's draft all the way through - a very laborious business.
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I just like a good story. I want the story to be good, and I want the character to be different than the last one I played. That's not always possible, but that's what I want.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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I believe in my music.
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I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.
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The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.
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We have met on a solemn occasion, and in this crowded assembly there is one thing that appears important, that is, for every one of us to be still, that if any thing should he said, every one may the better hear.
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I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I've always done that. Even using four-track cassette recorders, I was always doing whatever I could to make it as good as I could.
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The vast majority of English folk cannot and will not consider a picture as a picture, apart from any story which it may be supposed to tell.
