Vincent Van Gogh Quotes
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
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Here he tells us that the new birth is first of all 'not of blood'. You don't get it through the blood stream, through heredity. Your parents can give you much, but they cannot give you this.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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French 'Vogue' was always a photographer's magazine.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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You know, I've sold a lot of bad movies in my time.
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One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
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Sexuality is one of the biggest parts of who we are.
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The end of poetry is not to create a physical condition which shall give pleasure to the mind... The end of poetry is not an after-effect, not a pleasurable memory of itself, but an immediate, constant and even unpleasant insistence upon itself.
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We move sometimes. We send messages to each other. We talk on the phone. Tell me, what can we do?
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Anything where I get to write a lot of jokes and have a lot of creative control - that's all I want.
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The system of nature, of which man is a part, tends to be self-balancing, self-adjusting, self-cleansing. Not so with technology.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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Doctrines don't govern policy. They provide a conceptual framework by which policymakers approach their decisions. But there is no such thing as a doctrine that controls policy in every way.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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I'd probably play games obsessively if I didn't write, although I admit I don't read novels partly because I don't enjoy it, not just because it's the wrong side of the creator-consumer barrier for me. I'm a visual writer. I think in moving 3D images and write down what I observe.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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It just seems to useless to have to work so hard, and nothing ever really seem to come from it.
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I like the condition of being an outsider, just passing through.
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Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
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If you were a painter and a rock and roll musician and weren't established in either - to be an artist today you have to be as much a businessman to succeed, you have to spend an equal amount of time doing business as you spend doing your craft.
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The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.
