Jean Racine Quotes
The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
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I think I was lucky I got into art college. That's what saved me.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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People tend to associate fairies with princesses, but they couldn't be more different. Princesses have dynastic and domestic pressures, and they get parked on glass hills. Fairies don't have families. They don't clean or cook. They sip nectar from flowers and dance by the light of the moon.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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Eighty-five per cent of the crowd is going to fall in love with me - they're going to feel it, wow. But fifteen per cent are going to think, 'This guy is obnoxious.' I spend enormous time with them - every negative review of 'Crush It!' on Amazon has a response from me - and I can probably bring back ten of the fifteen.
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Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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I love going to the spa; it rejuvenates me and leaves me happy.
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We hope to encourage George and Charlotte to speak about their feelings, and to give them the tools and sensitivity to be supportive peers to their friends as they get older.
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Like I said, I'm just trying to continue to improve and get better.
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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I'd had 12 different job titles in publishing before I typed 'The End' at the bottom of a manuscript page. I thought the manuscript was in great shape; I was pretty proud of myself. Then I sent it to some publishing friends, and they tore it apart.
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The sandy cat by the Farmer's chair Mews at his knee for dainty fare; Old Rover in his moss-greened house Mumbles a bone, and barks at a mouse. In the dewy fields the cattle lie Chewing the cud 'neath a fading sky; Dobbin at manger pulls his hay: Gone is another summer's day.
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I am still working with music, but Gordon and I no longer perform together.
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An artist must be free to choose what he does, certainly, but he must also never be afraid to do what he might choose.
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I sort of always had an inkling towards some kind of an art form. I grew up in a very small town, and I just figure-skated. My dad played hockey and I was surrounded by sports, but it wasn't quite doing it for me. I wasn't totally fulfilled, and I did a lot of skating.
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The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.
