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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The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
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Across the world, on your phone, everybody gets the same list of things to read, listen to, and watch.
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I never talk about my opponent because I don't think it's my right to judge.
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There may be a recession in stock prices, but not anything in the nature of a crash.
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I'll decide to do a movie and then go oh, like "Twilight" fans are probably going to react to this or whatever. But that's always an afterthought. Like I don't plan things out based on other people's opinions of how like I think they're going to receive them. I do it like for the experience.
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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.
