John Ruskin Quotes
Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.John Ruskin
Quotes to Explore
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I waited for my first kiss.
Carly Rae Jepsen -
I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
Patrick Wilson -
As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
Rainbow Rowell -
From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
Samuel Goldwyn -
If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.
Olivia De Havilland -
I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
Dana Carvey
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My first audition happened to be for 'Kindergarten Cop,' and I took that role. I was only starting to learn English at that point. Spanish is my first language, so they made me a speaking character in the movie. I didn't really know I was shooting a movie. I was just having a lot of fun with 30 kids my own age.
Odette Annable -
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
Vance Havner -
I just think Australia tends to make very good movies, so if someone hands me an Australian or an American film script I would guess the Australian film would be more intriguing.
Barbara Hershey -
In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
Dan Fogler -
I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
M. Night Shyamalan -
Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
Kate Williams
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
Beatrice Wood -
I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
Waris Ahluwalia -
I can't deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It's a conscious thing; it's a common-sense thing.
Taylor Swift -
There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
Ada Yonath -
When I meet a person and that chemistry is there, I cannot hide the electricity. I need to learn more about him, and once I feel safe, I'm gone, I'm in love, and I give it my all!
Taraji P. Henson -
Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
Vernon Howard
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In the early work of Frank Lloyd Wright - and you can also see it with Mies - they make new ground by raising the ground. Frank Lloyd Wright did it so beautifully with the Robie House. The roof becomes almost a new ground.
Ben van Berkel -
Performance became part of my art in a way - expressing things and emotion.
Jessica Brown Findlay -
I enjoy finding a low subject and bringing it up high. I think with strong technique, you can glamorize certain things. You can make the imagery sharper, rounder, and basically better looking.
Peter Saul -
The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion.
Abraham Lincoln -
Football is losing its heart and sense of humour.
Gary Lineker -
Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
John Ruskin