Wendell Berry Quotes
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I was just taking pictures to see what they looked like. Just for the fun of it. It wasn't about anything in some cases. Some of them were just about the joy of opening up an aperture and seeing what shows up.
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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I'm an actor, paid to act. I don't bring personal problems to the sets. Dad taught me that.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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My mum sent me to ballet from the age of five, not because I was that into it but because I had really knock knees.
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Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith. … Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.
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A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.
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Few of humanity's characteristics are more disconcerting than its ability to reduce world-events to its own level, wherever this may happen to be.
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We will live with racism for ever. But senses of self, senses of belonging, senses of us and of others? Those are up for grabs.
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An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.
