Rudolf Arnheim Quotes
The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.
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I write in a small office at home.
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I'm an actor who wants to do great parts, and I've been very fortunate, for a long time, to get meaty roles, and sometimes some of them are meatier than others.
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There's a lot of stress... but once you get in the car, all that goes out the window.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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My father and mother were second cousins, though they did not meet till shortly before their marriage.
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I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.
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I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
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I think that the idea of having a different approach to every single one of my albums is so exciting to me. I never want to make the same record twice. Why do it? What's the point?
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I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
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When I'm a brunette, it's four times harder to hail a taxi. Then I go blonde again, and suddenly there are taxis everywhere.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.
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The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that? We need protection too.
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Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah
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The NIH syndrome (Not Invented Here) is a disease.
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'Ridin' up in them GTO's and 4-4-2's, Grand Prix's, S.S's, causes we so so cool'
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You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
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I wanted to say to myself as much as anyone else that we made art.
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It was as though she practiced some shameful art: black magic, voodoo, or poetry.
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One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.
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The arts are neglected because they are based on perception, and perception is disdained because it is not assumed to involve thought.
