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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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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This is not a political issue. I know Florida's leadership has talked about a real commitment to helping our veterans. Now it's time for them to show it.
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Forty-five States, as the gentleman just said, have determined by people that were elected by the people of that State that marriage is the definition of one man and one woman.
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Technology, we find, amplifies behaviours. If you want to be anti-social, technology allows you to be. And vice versa.
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Language should fulfill your individual existence as a wholesome human being... Language should be more than just getting by.
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Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
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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.
