Maurice de Vlaminck Quotes
..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation..
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In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.
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Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his act are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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It's not that I'm opposed to doing a big-budget action movie. But it has to be the right project.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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The acting bug just seemed to stick with me. I loved going to theatre school in college and continued to train in film classes and had been auditioning for T.V. and movie roles since I was in my late teens. My career has been slow and steady, and I kind of like it that way.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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I want to do whatever I can to survive.
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Dissensions between Muslim nations run at least as deep, if not deeper, than those nations' resentment of the West.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.
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You can finish the day's filming or the whole shoot or watch something months later and think you could have done it so much better. It's frustrating.
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
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Hollywood is something imagined... acting is something crafted.
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Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.
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You're one of the most natural, great singers I've heard in a long time.
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Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
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Such taxes upon the necessaries of life, when they have grown up to a certain height, are a curse equal to the barrenness of the earth and the inclemency of the heavens; and yet it is in the richest and most industrious countries that they have been most generally imposed. No other countries could support so great a disorder.
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We can be poor in spirit, and I don't even consider myself wealthy, which is an interesting thing, it can be here today and gone tomorrow.
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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.
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We all have that burning question about what happens if we lose somebody we love, especially if we lose them tragically. We wonder what fear was going on, we wonder if we could have reached out and touched them, held their hand, looked in their eyes, been there.
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..a revolt against an established order in painting, a revolt against an established order in society, a same spirit of provocation..
