Johan Huizinga Quotes
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
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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 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.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I'm trying to sell every audience something; that something is me.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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It was great being together as a band, but much more difficult being brothers than it was being in a band.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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The job of mayor and Governor is becoming more and more like the job of university president, which I used to be; it looks like you are in charge, but you are not.
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In a city, it's very hard to do a restaurant, an avant-garde-cuisine restaurant, where each year you need to change the whole menu.
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When I pick my subcommittee chairmen, I look for people that understand what it's like to run successful businesses, who know what it's like to sign the front of the check instead of the back of the check: somebody that gets it.
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With any relationship that goes on and is productive over a long period, there have to be some sort of interlocking qualities in those personalities that make it possible to survive.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.
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I work with a group of actors, and whenever one of us has an audition, we all get together, and we all work together on it. I think it takes us back to our film school days, our drama school days, us just working together and figuring it out because somebody else is going to see something in the material that you won't see.
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The only time some people work like a horse is when the boss rides them.
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I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.
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There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to take a deep interest. The progress of the human mind is never traced with such a lively interest as through the steps by which it perfects a great invention; and there is certainly no invention respecting which this minute information will be more eagerly sought after, than in the case of the steam-engine.
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I've never tried to learn the art of acting. I have been in the business for years but I still can't tell what acting is or how it's done.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
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In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
