C. S. Lewis Quotes
The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
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The views of religious-Zionist rabbis are of course worthy of being heard, yet they represent a very defined and very narrow camp within the Israeli spectrum. This is not the way to shape the perception of future division and brigade commanders.
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I have just begun a work in which an important part is given to a large chorus and with it I want to use several of your instruments - augmenting their range as in those I used for my Equatorial - especially in the high range.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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I'd really love to work with Quentin Tarantino. There's so many people that I'd love to work with, but there's something about Quentin, and one of my all-time favorite films is 'Kill Bill.' Something along those lines would be such a blast.
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Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.
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It became clear to me in an instant that living a gay life without publicly acknowledging it is simply not enough to make any significant contribution to the immense work that lies ahead on the road to complete equality.
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Art is always criticized and always an outsider gets the blame.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Focus comes a lot more easily when you desperately want the results of your own work - nobody else is going to do it for you.
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I was always trying - I never wanted to let my fans down; I always wanted them to see me in my art form.
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If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. They're very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.
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I'm quite adept at writing two or sometimes even three stories at once. So if I get stuck on one story, I switch the next and let my subconscious work on unraveling any plot problems from another story.
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Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.
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My husband is not a jealous person in any way.
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My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.
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When you make art, you get really invested in it. When art happens by accident and you were just along for the ride? It's way more fun.
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I work with all these amazing voice actors that do a kajillion voices.
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I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.
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I know nothing of life except through the cinema.
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We can't really do any improv on 'The Big Bang' because we don't understand a lot of what the dialogue means to begin with, because of the physics jargon.
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At the end of our NASA careers, no one had a place for us in the military.
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That I was not dueling with the king, but trying to communicate with him, was itself an incommunicable fact.
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The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way.
