Edouard Manet Quotes
There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
Quotes to Explore
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Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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I've been too many places. I'm like the bad penny.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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One definition of noir is where a not-so-good man or woman tries to touch something good - and fails.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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The mutated Marfan gene creates a defective version of fibrillin, a protein that provides structural support for soft tissues like blood vessels. Marfan victims often die young, in fact, after their aortas grow threadbare and rupture.
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I vowed to myself when I got married that I would cook every night. I find it very therapeutic.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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And they will tell you unequivocally that if we have a chemical or biological attack or a nuclear attack anywhere in this country, they are unprepared to deal with it today, and that is of high urgency.
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It's funny to think that when you get done with an acting job, you're considered unemployed. There are definitely times when those checks don't last forever. I went to college at a private school, and I racked up quite a bit of debt. I was very slow to pay them back.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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I made a very conscious decision to quit acting. I was on a series, and we were in the process of renegotiating. They had an idea of what they thought I was worth, and I had an idea that was quite different.
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Since I've had a son, I want to be around to see him grow up.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.
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It means what it says.
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The two real leads in 'Children of Men' are Clive Owen and the social environment. You know, this same movie without the social environment maybe is just like a generic chase movie.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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There is only one true thing: instantly paint what you see. When you've got it, you've got it. When you haven't, you begin again. All the rest is humbug.
