Quentin Bell Quotes
The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.
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The ability to calibrate risk doesn't happen rationally.
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There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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I've worked so hard for so long, and everyone's reaction has made me feel like... almost like they trust me, which is just a wonderful feeling. It pushes me to write things better and better.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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But it was hard to leave because the show's been so important in our lives.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Whom am I going to trust if I have to back again.
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Strip makeup lights just don't give you a fighting chance no matter how good looking you are. Light sconces that flank the mirror illuminate your entire face evenly.
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My sister, she's amazing. She sort of inspired me to take this journey to Latin America.
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If people want to see you, they'll find you. If they don't see you on TV, they'll find you on the Internet.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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The demand that defective people be prevented from propagating equally defective offspring is a demand of the clearest reason and if systematically executed represents the most humane act of mankind.
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The damnable thing about bad art is that the insincerity which lies at its roots is not perceived by the artist himself.
