Sonya Hartnett Quotes
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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There is no reason to suppose that taste is in any way a lower sense than the other four; a fine palate is as much a gift as an eye that discerns beauty or an ear that appreciates and enjoys subtle harmonies of sound, and we are quite right to value the pleasures that all our senses give us and educate their perceptions.
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I've been in the public eye now for about 15 or 16 years, and I'm very aware that fame is not a given. I have to maintain it. It's not just something that will always be there. But I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.
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Most people don't understand that being in the public eye is emotionally exhausting. It takes a lot out of you.
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If you have your eye set on somebody, don't beat around the bush.
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I feel naked without my rings, and don't like walking out of the house without them, even if they do tear half of my sweaters and stab my friends in the eye.
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When I do a workshop, there is always at least one author who comes up afterward and asks if I'll take a look at his or her book and consider blurbing it. For some reason, I can turn someone down in e-mail, but when he or she is looking me in the eye, I cave.
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For my everyday look, I don't like going anywhere without eye makeup.
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I do not organize my private life with an eye to my career.
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I like a dramatic eye and a bold lip.
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Crowds are the most difficult thing for me these days because I have to walk with my head down and my eyes averted. There's still that part of me that wants to hold my head up, make eye contact and smile.
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The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
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In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you.
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Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
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I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.
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Time expands and contracts. When it expands, it’s like pitch: it folds people in its arms and holds them forever in its embrace. It doesn’t let us go so easily. Sometimes you go back again to the place you’ve just come from, stop and close your eyes, and realize that not a second has passed, and time just leaves you there, stranded, in the darkness
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When we all sing in unison - sing in harmony - things come to us on levels that are much deeper than can be seen by the naked eye. Much deeper than even our subconscious. Things are happening.
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Hope will break your heart all over again.
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An eye for an eye til everyone is blind.
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Any eye is an evil eye. That looks in on to a mood apart.
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People have tried to control other people by trapping them with debt. A loan can become a harmful and dangerous weapon.
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For us [hockey] is an opportunity, myself and my brothers have an opportunity to do something special.
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A small town has as many eyes as a fly
