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 I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.
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I'm very specific and ambitious in plotting out my goals and never take no for an answer - so it's not like things just fall in my lap.
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When I first saw California, it was extraordinary. Because I came from old, black, dark England, still recovering from World War II. I grew up with bomb sites everywhere.
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I would try to guide my children in a different way to have a career. Something besides being an actress, singer or model. I'm definitely going to push my kids in the other direction.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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No man who can do any one thing well will be able to any different thing equally well.
