John Constable Quotes
I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
Quotes to Explore
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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My nephew has type 1 diabetes, and it's my goal and hope that in his lifetime there will be a cure for diabetes. There's no place better to give the money to than the Juvenile Diabetes Association.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn't help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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If you're on a network show, it's either some wacky sitcom or a drama where you're servicing a procedure.
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It's insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it's assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It's that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he's telling you something about his own life. It's so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!
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Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.
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It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
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I was excited when I first got the call, when I heard BBC Four were making a biography and they were interested in me being a part of it.
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I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful.
