Michael Foreman Quotes
Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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If we look at the fact that record covers are essentially advertisements for the music, we acknowledge a function and purpose to draw in the prospective buyer.
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My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.
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Photography is like a moment, an instant. You need a half-second to get the photo. So it's good to capture people when they are themselves.
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What I am afraid of is the first thing I was ever aware of being afraid of and what I have told my daughter countless times she need not fear: being alone in the dark. It is a small prison of emotion from which there is no escape. It is also, in its own way, a shattering revelation.
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And the hooded clouds, like friars,Tell their beads in drops of rain.
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The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.
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I think the beauty of growing up is not really knowing and figuring it out for yourself.
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I'm not optimistic.
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When you do a film, all you want is to make the best film possible. You don't think about Oscars. But it's really flattering. Please, bring it on!
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After several trillion dollars of stimulation by the Obama Administration and the Fed, one might think the economy would be chugging along at a pretty good clip. But, it just isn't so, and the light at the end of the tunnel is pretty dim. Just ask a small business owner.
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The people ask much, often more than any government can give. We must resist the temptation to promise solutions to all problems.
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I'm just like everyone. I like to feel togetherness with someone.
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Social satire has been around since people have been around.
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I've always really loved the '20s and the whole Art Deco time. I just think it was just the most amazing era for style and design.
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I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.
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Matisse was my God. I'm a French artist, that's for sure. I am color-oriented and what you might call a composer. I am not pouring my guts out; I keep them inside.
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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together.
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Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.
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The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long.
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Drawing was the only thing I was any good at in school, but I never dreamt I would, or even could, spend my life doing it.
