Evelyn Keyes Quotes
... shouldn't everything you do matter if you're bothering at all? Not to hold on when it's over, that's the trick.
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Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
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Will do Satan's work for food.
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Change, of course, is growth, and anything that is not growing is either paralysed or it's not alive, because that's life; we always change and we grow.
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What happens for a lot of veterans when they come home, especially when they get back to their community is that they can go to a very tough and hard place and they start to wonder, 'What's next for me?' and they ask themselves, 'Why did this happen to me?'
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I've definitely read stuff that I've been offered, where I've been like, "I can't do this. I think somebody would be better in this than me."
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the magic is inside you. there ain't no crystal ball
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It's probably a reflection of my own, if I may say, loneliness. I don't know. It could be the whole human condition.
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You're nothing in America if you don't have debt.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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The work ethic at art school is completely different than the work ethic amongst people who get into music. People who paint, it's an honorable thing to spend all day and all night in front of your canvas - that is the romantic vision of the painter.
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Being someone who prays or fasts doesn't mean you want an Islamic state. Islam in the form of the Iranian state has been defeated in the Arab world. All Islamist movements now want to copy the Turkish model.
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I've wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high, because it's wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work. You can't buy it, you can't get it on a street corner, you can't steal it or inject it or shove it up your ass, you have to earn it.
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Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
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Never put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
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A sudden attack of culture snobbery is a common affliction among policemen of a certain rank and age; it’s like a normal midlife crisis, only with more chandeliers and foreign languages.
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... shouldn't everything you do matter if you're bothering at all? Not to hold on when it's over, that's the trick.
