Evelyn de Morgan Quotes
Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.
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Well, first I have to make the team, of course.
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Dance connects us to the musicality of life and to one another. No one should be denied such basic pleasures.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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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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When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.
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I was reading Omar Khayyam, Kahlil Gibran, Rumi, L. Ron Hubbard, all sorts of philosophy. Bebop cats are like that. Curious. I wanted to know about everything.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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The most expensive hobby a rich man could have is a boat, and the second most expensive hobby he could have is a very old house.
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I'm always going to love my father.
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If a woman feels anchored to a man's plans, she may start to resent him for the fun she's worried she's missing.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him. A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense. Its aim is to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.
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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
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Everything's a risk, by the way, these days. Every film you make is a risk. There's no guarantee.
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Never in her life – she could swear it from the bottom of her soul – had she ever intended to do wrong; yet these hard judgments had come. Whatever her sins, they were not sins of intention, but of inadvertence, and why should she have been punished so persistently?
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I'm never the kind of person to say what somebody else should do. I'm very much do what you feel to do.
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Art is eternal, but life is short..I will make up for it now, I have not a moment to lose.
