Umberto Boccioni Quotes
A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'
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I'm a Canadian. Outside Canada I carry the flag. Canadian nationalism isn't as insidious as American nationalism, though. It's good natured. It's all about maple syrup, not war.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.
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I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'
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There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
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A marciful Providunce fashioned us hollerO' purpose thet we might our principles swaller.
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From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.
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In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.
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The spirit of the Japanese nation is, by its nature, a thing that must be propagated over the seven seas and extended over the five continents. Anything that may hinder its progress must be abolished, even by force.
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A portrait, to be a work of art, neither must nor may resemble the sitter... one must paint its atmosphere.
