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 never said, 'I live for art.'
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If it's correct to say that there is a closing of minds around the world, story is one of the most powerful agents of reviving the conversation between ideas. Ultimately, that's all stories are trying to do - open the conversation. They cannot give a proscription. It's not clairvoyant art.
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In almost every task involving form, there are dozens, often hundreds of contradictory elements, which need to be forced to work in harmony by man's will. This harmony can be acheived only through art.
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That case with my two sisters? That was a disaster. It was. They're really fine people. When my family and my two sisters' families - their children - grew up and so on, it just wasn't the same. But we took care of them very nicely.
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By taking a business-like approach, the student-athletes and their parents will be in control of the outcome and that's how it should be.
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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.
