Malcolm Cowley Quotes
In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.
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Competition is good because we need to educate customers, and Ozon.ru itself will not be able to do it.
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What we need to do is break the financial community's grip on society.
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I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.
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I found that I need to work, and I wouldn't have known that if I hadn't taken the time off.
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I'm not a movie star like other actors in the way that I need to walk with a bodyguard.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I have worked steadily since I started, but things are very hard for women and need to change.
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I need to work to feel well.
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I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.
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Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
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M&A guidelines need to be liberal.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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We still need to feed the public, both physically and intellectually.
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The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.
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Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.
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It's hard to generalize, because they're all different. When I started, I decided to take as much advantage as I could of the freedom offered by the SF field.
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I made the argument that every growing demographic in this country - nonwhite voters, younger people - is trending Democratic. It's a ticking time bomb for the GOP. That's why I felt safe in saying that 'Republicans have no hope of making serious inroads into Democratic advantages in 2010 or likely 2012 or 2014 and so on.'
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In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.
