Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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Having a guy on a microphone yelling lines at you is counter to a lot of acting techniques.
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My go-to jeans are a straight, narrow cut from A.P.C. or BLK DNM.
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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
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I am an honest person, transparent, that look citizens straight in their faces.
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Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
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Reciting lines is hard; making stuff up is much, much easier.
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I remember certain lines and whose they are.
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I'm straight and I have a lot of gay friends.
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I can't do the frappuccino. It's too sweet. I need it straight.
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I come from a line of great Sicilian women, and their mentality is to endure and push through to the other side.
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I've been offered a lot of things that celebrities do that I wouldn't do, like perfumes, lines of clothing and this, that and the other.
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Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined
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What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to amplify it in order to more powerfully activate the same neural mechanisms that would be activated by the original object.
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Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.
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We thought about switching every day and creating new lines but then we decided not to, ... The whole idea here was the introduction of some concepts of play. Rather then have them worrying about adjusting to new guys every day, we wanted them to concentrate and focus on trying to absorb the system we want to play.
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Sensitivity and money are like parallel lines. They don't meet.
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I'm now in my mid-thirties, so I look in the mirror and my face is changing, and I have a different relationship all of a sudden with myself. Your face changes, things change - that's just kind of what happens. It's hard, though, in this industry, because I think so much importance is put on how you look, and I'm not brave enough to be like, "You know what? I'm just going to let it happen. Whatever. I'm so cool with every line on my face."
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We want all these trees to grow straight and live long. This is a good day.
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The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other than its own intrinsic quality; by a curiosity or lack of it about the people it deals with, their outlook, their way of life.
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Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
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Only lifeless mechanisms move along faultlessly straight lines and compass circles. In art the surest way to destroy is to canonize one given form and one philosophy: that which is canonized quickly dies of obesity, of entropy.
