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.
Quotes to Explore
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I waited for my first kiss.
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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.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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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.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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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.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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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!
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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.
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We have rules that no longer are relevant to the world we're living in. Our regulatory system can't keep up.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire.
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A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature.
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I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.
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I've never played anybody like a cop before.
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Every good piece of art... involves first essentially the evidence of human skill, and the formation of an actually beautiful thing by it.
