John Constable Quotes
No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.
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My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.
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You only live twice. Once when you are born and once when you look death in the face.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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As someone who has had cancer, I learned that you don't have to die. Look at me. Because of early detection, I'm fine. I'm cured. I'm well.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I always have to have my lipstick. Sometimes I have more than one shade: start with one color for the morning, one for night. Sometimes I have a couple shades just in case I need something more powerful for the day.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there.
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I'm reticent to say much more, but we would like to begin in the coming year. We'd like to shoot through the seasons because of the passage of time. This project is the great love of my life.
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I would never take my children and place them next to missile launchers.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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Electricity is derived from many non-renewable energy sources like oil, natural gas and coal.
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What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.
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A resilient culture has a certain amount of resistance embedded in it. Not so much to capsize it, but enough so that it doesn't atrophy.
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Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.
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I imagine there are a lot of people who will never be able to accept me because they feel I've let them down, but I am a different person, and most people have welcomed me back in that spirit.
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I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.
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No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.
