Eugene Delacroix Quotes
Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
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I have received the greatest honor in my life - and the greatest surprise. Never did I dream that the Nobel Prize could be awarded for the reciprocal relations.
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It was a movement that had all the art critics, all the museum directors in its thrall.
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Weirdly, my nickname was Lady. I didn't get Stretch, or Stilts, or Spider Legs - I got Lady. I guess I was always a bit ladylike.
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I wasn't very good as a puppet. A lot of times in a movie, you need a really good puppeteer: you're sort of a puppet, and you're doing what you can. But I always, from the beginning, was kind of making up my own stuff from stand-up and sort of directing myself, so I wasn't very good in movies where I didn't have control.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.
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I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.
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The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.
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As a company, we have to be very transparent. We are in a business very related to finance, and I want this company to last long, and I want this company to be audited by everyone.
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Getting your screenplay right is the most important thing you'll ever do on your film.
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Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it's just a daisy in a jelly glass.
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The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.
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Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it.
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Play it like something you hear down by the river.
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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumour, and survival a thing beyond the bounds of possibility.
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My parents never pressured me except to advise me against acting.
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Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn't an MP3.
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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
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I eat carefully because people don't want to see a large person judging cakes. They'll think to themselves, 'That's what happens when you eat cake.'
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Cold exactitude is not art; ingenious artifice, when it pleases or when it expresses, is art itself.
