John Berryman Quotes
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
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Jazz vision for me is seeing my art in musical term. It offers me an visual expressions in an ever-changing musical palette.
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And just when we were at the end of our design process there was the news that the Italian government and the U.S. government had signed an agreement to fly the first Italian astronaut on that flight.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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My worst expectations never happened.
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I'm interested not just in projects that I'll be starring in, but producing film and TV that's really quality and great for adults; and when I say 'great for adults,' it doesn't mean without humor, because I'm also interested in doing comedy.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.
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I gratefully look forward to oblivion, but I must be sure of it.
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My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
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A friend told me about the casting notice for 'Queer Eye.' I was in Chicago and I had a contract with 'Esquire' magazine, so had been coming to New York City regularly and thought I'd catch a cheap flight, crash on a friend's sofa and do this hilarious audition that I had no chance of winning.
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I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business.
