T. Allen Lawson Quotes
The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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Charan is very hard-working and non-egoistic, given the family he comes from. He is very open to listening, and he surrenders himself completely to the director. It was lovely to work with an actor like that.
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Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do?
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When I was painting in art school - and I think many painters in the 1980s worked similarly - a finished painting would often be constructed from lots of other paintings underneath. Some of these individual layers of painting were better than others, but that was something that you would often only realise retrospectively.
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Everyone wants to understand art. Why don't we try to understand the song of a bird? Why do we love the night, the flowers, everything around us, without trying to understand them? But in the case of a painting, people think they have to understand.
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There is no royal road; you've got to work a good deal harder than most people want to work.
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Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
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The transition from painter to artist comes when you cross the line of painting what you see to painting what you feel about what you see.
