Henri Rousseau Quotes
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It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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I have a great support network - my family, my model agency Storm, and people I work with in the fashion industry. And, of course, there are all my followers on Twitter who stop me from feeling lonely; I love them all. They keep me grounded.
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The survival of artistic modes in which we recognize ourselves, identify ourselves and place ourselves will survive as long as humanity survives.
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A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.
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There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting.
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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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Wonder Woman, she's amazing. I love everything that she represents and everything that she stands for. She's all about love and compassion and truth and justice and equality, and she's a whole lot of woman.
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When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.
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During my career several people have tried to push me out the door... Nobody has succeeded yet.
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I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.
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I personally don't feel the need to be radical for its own sake, but I probably couldn't if I tried anyway.
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A painter is a choreographer of space.
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Colors were dynamite for us.
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You can't always be a leading lady.
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Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.
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The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
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Today, with the abundance of books available, it is the mark of a truly educated man to know what not to read. … Feed only on the best. As John Wesley’s mother counseled him: ‘Avoid whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, takes off your relish for spiritual things, … increases the authority of the body over the mind.
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If it is reason that forms man then it is the emotions that guide her.
