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.
Hans Hofmann -
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?
Garry Shandling -
Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
Sam Abell -
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.
Daniel Everett -
To disregard the obvious is not a good trait in a leader in any situation.
Jack Reed -
I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
Zara Larsson
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
Tamara Ecclestone -
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Quintilian -
All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
Karen Salmansohn -
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.
Francesca Annis -
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.
Carine Roitfeld -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
Kabir Bedi -
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.
Olesya Rulin -
I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
Yoko Ono -
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.
Edith Widder -
We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
Kate Brown -
I love to play with the notion of who the protagonist is - who is the audience supposed to root for? I did it in 'Sicario' and feel it was the strength of the script - guiding the audience's allegiance toward the villain because they think he's the hero, until it's revealed that he's the villain.
Taylor Sheridan
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In Old Europe and Ancient Crete, women were respected for their roles in the discovery of agriculture and for inventing the arts of weaving and pottery making.
Carol P. Christ -
I think you create your own hipness.
Peabo Bryson -
No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.
Andre Maurois -
Everybody in my family sings. We were either in a choir, or there was something going on at home where we were singing.
Sidney Royel Selby III -
In Washington, I'll always support military families and help veterans make the transition home, not just as your congressman but as a proud Army mom.
Ann Callis -
Prevent the things you have been doing and you are half-way home.
F. Matthias Alexander