Ernest Hemingway Quotes
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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Youth all over the world are very hungry to succeed.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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After a long day, my favorite way to unwind is by going running. Not exactly the most relaxing activity, granted, but I always imagine I'm sweating out all the things weighing on my mind.
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I can do whatever I want.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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I'll never get married again, and I always hate to say never to anything, but I will never marry again.
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Therapists have tremendous power over their vulnerable clients, and it is very easy to take advantage of this power.
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We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.
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I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.
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I really believe great actors, even with disease and age, can be great.
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I don't think ever before in the whole of human history has so much art been made, bought, and sold. It's a massive international business. So, I think there's a lot of reasons why the art world as opened up and I think on the whole, it's far better for it.
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Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
