Paul Robeson Quotes
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The terrifying and edible beauty of Art Nouveau architecture.
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I do not see myself, I never make plans, I never set goals, and I never do that kind of stuff; I don't like to futurize, I barely know what I will do tomorrow, and because there is a working plan here, I've never futurized because life always surprises me with things even better.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
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To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
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I was born and raised in Vancouver. I moved to Beijing in 2010 just before the Olympics. Being an Asian Canadian actor, the amount of opportunity at the time was slim to none. I made the decision to go to China, and it was one of the best decisions of my life.
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The Clinton tax increase - which was an increase in taxes primarily on upper-income people - not only made the tax code more nearly progressive, it preceded one of the most productive economic periods in American life.
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'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.
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I'm a proud American - becoming a citizen in 1988 was one of the most profoundly moving occasions in my life; I'm a former Texan and a recent Californian.
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Sleep - the most beautiful experience in life - except drink.
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It goes without saying that the normal durability of fixed capital is calculated on the supposition that all the conditions under which it can perform its functions normally during that time are fulfilled, just as we assume, in placing a mans life at 30 years on the average,that he will wash himself.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity.
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But now if I can wrap myself up in that song, and when that song gets to be a part of me, and affects me emotionally, then the emotions that I go through, chances are I’ll be able to communicate to you. Make the people out there become a part of the life of this song that you’re singing about. That’s soul when you can do that.1
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A lot of kids are bullied because of their sexuality, and that breaks my heart, because they're going to have to - high school's hard enough to overcome. Middle school is hard enough to overcome when we get out of it. They say life is what you spend your time getting over because of high school, you know what I mean?
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I'm either offered window-dressing parts in large movies or little art films no one ever sees. People think the movies I end up doing are my real choices. I do the best things I'm offered.
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When it comes to referring to Dickens's life, performing plays with your nine children for friends and family during Christmas is Dickensian.
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She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed.
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Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.
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People have always had a fascination with the supernatural going back to the beginning of time and with vampires in particular. This phenomenon is not new.
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I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
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Art is not just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
