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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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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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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The U.S. and European markets have become mature, profit margins are lower, and equipment isn't so new. Because profits are relatively low, it limits the willingness of companies to invest in newer equipment.
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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'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.
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Anyone can be a fisherman in May.
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Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them.
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My idea of art is, you write something that makes people feel so strongly that they get some conviction about who they want to be or what they want to do. It's morally useful not in a political way, but it makes your heart bigger; it's emotionally and spiritually empowering.
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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.
