John Ruskin Quotes
Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.
Quotes to Explore
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I don't really think about what's 'age appropriate' for my audience because I think they can handle quite a bit, but I do try to think about what's honest and true to my characters who have grown up in situations where they've been taught to handle these things very carefully and that they're very powerful.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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Now it would be as absurd to deny the existence of God, because we cannot see him, as it would be to deny the existence of the air or wind, because we cannot see it.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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On a very basic level, many people think celebrities have too much already, so we shouldn't be entitled to our political opinions.
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For me, comedy is richer and larger than anything else.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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Everybody wants to have a partner; everybody would love to have a family, and for trans people, sometimes that can be extraordinarily difficult to do.
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I believe that a different therapy must be constructed for each patient because each has a unique story.
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We're from Athens, GA.; we're big Bulldog fans, and I remember watching A. J. Green, David Pollock, David Greene. We were big Cowboys and Falcons fans.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
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Culture is how biology responds and makes its living conditions better.
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As an actor, it's hard to direct because, suddenly, you're not around. The thing which I hate about directing is the waiting game, but you've really got to wait it out and be resilient and keep it going and keep everybody motivated.
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No such thing as food that's terrible for you, unless you binge on it.
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You can't win for losing. Either you fulfill their stereotype of being a radical 60's person or you've sold out. In fact, of course, millions of people who were active in the 60's are doing work on issues that try to reflect their values.
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Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
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God made only one you and He threw the mold away.
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Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling.
