Yevgeny Zamyatin Quotes
What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.Yevgeny Zamyatin
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I like the detail work of telling a story in small pieces, as is done in movie-making, and also the long leap of faith needed to see a theatre performance through each night. Both require focus and self-discipline.
Viggo Mortensen -
I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
Vera Wang -
I like to be supportive and a role model.
Rachel Platten -
One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
H. P. Lovecraft -
War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner -
A lot of people who want to cook with less fat are surprised by that. You can cook vegetables in a little water in a covered pan and then throw the fat into the residual liquid to coat them.
Sally Schneider
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
Karen Duffy -
The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
Aaron Allston -
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
Edmund White -
A free society will abide unofficial, private discrimination, even when that means allowing hate-filled groups to exclude people based on the color of their skin.
Rand Paul -
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Abraham Lincoln -
The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
R. A. Salvatore
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
Jack Nicklaus -
Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
Valerie Bertinelli -
I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
Walid Jumblatt -
Now I have the bravery to do fine things.
Gabriela Sabatini -
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden -
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
Dan Marino
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I am a mystery to myself.
Angelina Grimke -
But there's a decision that I find God is asking us to make: whether we are going to choose to interpret our circumstances based on what we hold to be true about God, or whether we're going to judge what we hold to be true about God based on our circumstances.
Laura Story -
I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.
Ken Baumann -
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
John Ruskin -
I have had to make a decision I may not agree with, but I am required to follow the letter of the law. It is not my job to think what is best... My responsibility is to decide what the law says and to decide to the law.
Charles T. Canady -
What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturabtion … whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce -- render emotional -- his audience, each time.
Yevgeny Zamyatin