Ezra Pound Quotes
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
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Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
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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 write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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It's like, backstage at 'SNL,' like, if you come back after a show or something, or a lot of times even at the after-parties, we're just pretty tired and like, 'Hey, what's up.' Just getting a drink and kind of chilling out. Nothing crazy.
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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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Things are beautiful if you love them.
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My mother was a courageous woman, and she had such tremendous love for life. She loved the natural world. She would wake us up in the middle of the night to go look at the moon. When I was a teenager, this was a source of great frustration because I wanted to sleep.
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My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.
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I felt like onstage I have to have a certain amount of anonymity, like, personal anonymity, to feel loose and free. When you're up there with people who've known you for a decade, and you make a bad joke and you hear the cackling behind the drums, it's hard to get lost in the moment.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
