F. Matthias Alexander Quotes
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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have to do in order to live, we have to solve the communication problem. Language is the tool that was invented to solve that problem.
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To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I don't think the media circus has ever been a shock to my life seeing as I was with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor when I was 17.
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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Squid don't eat jellyfish, but they eat the things that eat the jellyfish. Jellyfishes put on a lightshow to attract a larger predator. It's caught in the clutches of something like a fish and has no hope for escape unless its lightshow attracts something bigger that will attack their attacker.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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If you let tragedies stop you along the way, then you're never going to grow as a person.
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I grew up in this business... A lot of my life has been centered around this question about how NASA is helping us to understand our own home planet... and to understand our place in the universe.
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Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.
