John Ruskin Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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When I first started, I thought I was wack. Lyrically, I thought I was wack. The thing I had over everybody was that I was the realest rapper.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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No adultery is bloodless.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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Japan's biggest problems are conservatism and cowardice.
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Usually I design the lighting and when I have the physical set there, I'm not good at going out loosely and saying, 'Do you what you want, give it to the editor, and he'll figure it out.' I physically then walk on with the actors and I say, 'Let's walk until you guys feel the space works for you, and tell me when all that happens.'
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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I served in the state Senate for six years with retiring Gov. John Lynch. During that time, we had the fourth-lowest unemployment rate in the country.
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As a writer myself, my job has very often been to also write on the job. So you get the script and a vague idea of how the scene might work, and you then add funny words or change the script. I'm not the world's best writer or the world's best actor, but I can do that thing where I can fix - or ruin - fix-slash-ruin, add quirk, add value.
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What's really great about the Archie Comics as a whole is that everybody is relatable.
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My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
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When you're just starting out, and someone you think is a real storyteller says something good about you, that helps.
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U.S. nuclear technology is one of this nation's most valuable secrets, and it should have been protected.
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Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.
