Sebastian Horsley Quotes
An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I save money when I'm working so that I never have to take a role simply to pay the bills.
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Sometimes it's nice just being in your own room and having a quiet night and relaxing and getting ready for the game.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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I was aiming for the cooks that I've talked to by teaching an online course and by traveling, listening to people who are really busy and harried but want to be cooking.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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The formula for a hit is saying what people want to hear.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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There should be a place and the space for all pop.
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If we choose the easy way, by letting another think for us, we must eventually tread the hard way. If we select the hard way, by insisting upon our own mental integrity, we eventually come to the easy way.
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The ideals of liberalism have been divorced from any realities of modern social structure that might serve as the means of their realization. ... The detachment of liberalism from the facts of a going society make it an excellent mask for those who do not, cannot, or will not do what would have to be done to realize its ideals.
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It came into existence because I had to paint it. Any attempt on my part to say something about it, to attempt explanation of the inexplicable, could only destroy it. 1947, on his painting 'She wolf'
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Just like keeping a healthy diet is important to maintaining a healthy lifestyle, eating the right foods is just as important for getting the most out of your workout.
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Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.
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I have a lot of fans, but a lot of people don't know who I am.
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A person fully awakened to the jewel-like dignity of their own life is capable of truly respecting that same treasure in others.
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I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.
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My kids have never seen me scream at anybody. They've never seen an argument. There's never been even a cold silence. And those are things that I grew up with because my parents did end up divorcing.
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An artist has to go to every extreme, to stretch his sensibility through excess and suffering in order to feel and to communicate more. I have always been fascinated by blood. Pain can be vitalizing; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
