Maurice Denis Quotes
Think of late paintings where Christ is the central figure.. .Remember the large mosaics of Rome. Reconcile the employment of large-scale decorative means and the direct emotions of nature.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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Lauren Goode and I have agreed that the next version of the Mac software - all of them are named after places in California - should be named either Bridgeport or Warwick.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Under the law, the government, whether it's state, local or federal, cannot give the Catholic Church or any religious institution money directly.
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There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.
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A lot of me is very up, and you have to have light and shade. They are both important and you have to be able to balance them. You have to admit that sadness is part of you and that it enriches you. I use it in my work.
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The least sexy city is Los Angeles. And it poses as the most sexy. As you grow up, L.A. is being sold to you as home of the bikini-clad party girls. And then you get there, and it's full of very goal-oriented, yoga-obsessed careerists.
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The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
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The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.
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It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
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I'm hopeless at small talk and have a problem making eye contact.
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Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
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I'm a worrier by nature.
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I just remember watching my first theater class, and I was like, 'Oh I can get up there,' like I could absolutely get up and do this every day and learn about it.
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There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has.
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Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.
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Think of late paintings where Christ is the central figure.. .Remember the large mosaics of Rome. Reconcile the employment of large-scale decorative means and the direct emotions of nature.
