John Ruskin Quotes
Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
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My dad was always such a frustrated artist. He always worked very hard to support his family, doing a bunch of ridiculous jobs. He wanted to be a painter, but then he also wrote science-fiction novels in his spare time.
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When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.
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I had a very long home birth. She was almost 10 pounds and did not want to come out.
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I remember, when I was doing 'Nicholas Nickleby', James Archer came to see me at the interval and said, 'My father would like to see you after the show.' It felt rather as if I had been summoned by the Queen, and I was cocky enough to think, 'Who the hell is he to summon me?'
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I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.
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When you're young, it's all about the society of school and being cool, but they don't understand that somebody can be different and live a different lifestyle and still be a regular person. I was the same way when I was a kid.
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It is possible to change, it is possible to leave weakness behind.
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Experience is a brutal teacher, but you learn fast.
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A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'
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Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.
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Becoming is not a contradiction of being but the epiphany of being.
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Individualism denotes the relationship between the individual and the collectivity which prevails in a given society.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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To say that most of us today are purely expansive is only another way of saying that most of us continue to be more concerned with the quantity than with the quality of our democracy.
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The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.
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There's all these idealistic things that TV and movies tell you that you should want to be. And when you're growing up, you find out what you really care about and what really matters.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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Beethoven always sounds to me like the upsetting of a bag of nails, with here and there an also dropped hammer.
