Stephanie Pearl-McPhee Quotes
A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Kids are meeting in coffee shops and basements figuring out what's unsustainable in their communities. That's the future.
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I'll be in a series for three or four episodes, but then I'll be off the series, and downtime, as an actor, is a little more than most people understand. Most of the time you're just sitting around taking coffee with friends.
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I still think the best classic meal in New York is a coffee-shop breakfast - you sort of can't skip it.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
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My desire to be a physician had a lot to do with that sense of medicine as a ministry of healing, not just a science. And not even just a science and an art, but also a calling, also a ministry.
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Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.
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I realize that I live in the same environment that I did when I was a kid, but with less junk and better art.
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It's a matter of invitations versus context. Twitter is really good at providing context, like, I'm having coffee at Third Rail Coffee.' Foursquare is about invitations to places. In this respect Foursquare has started to replace Yelp for me.
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Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.
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I went to Goldsmith College of Art in London in the '80s and there I made sculptures, but the objects had nothing to do with how I was thinking. I was making beautifully sanded wooden boxes!
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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Judaism’s campaign to make divinity invisible has never fully succeeded. Images are always eluding moral control, creating the brilliant western art tradition. Idolatry is fascism of the eye. The western eye will be served, with or without the consent of conscience.
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I had the feeling that there was a dimension of reality that had not been dealt with in art: the dimension of ugliness.
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Smiles come naturally to me, but I started thinking of them as an art form at my command. I studied all the time. I looked at magazines, I'd practice in front of the mirror and I'd ask photographers about the best angles. I can now pull out a smile at will.
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I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.
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How powerful it is to surprise a total stranger with a really nice act: buy them a cup of coffee, pay their toll. It makes their day; it makes your day.
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It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.
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I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.
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A half finished shawl left on the coffee table isn't a mess; it's an object of art.
