Joel Sternfeld Quotes
All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.
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The day I finished 'Twilight,' I came home and started bulking up. For 'New Moon,' I'm 30 pounds heavier than I was in 'Twilight.'
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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The two most important things in my life were academics and sports. I had to do my schoolwork first.
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America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there's no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.
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If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.
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I make hits.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin' hymns is a great thing to do.
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I think nobody since has written such extraordinary work as Shakespeare writes. The characters he writes are full of inconsistencies, which is a great human quality - I mean, we're all very inconsistent in the way we behave.
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My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.'
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All of my work has been about ideas of utopia and dystopia. I think that's what gives America interest. It's many things all at once. It's such a complicated society.
