Fairfield Porter Quotes
Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men?
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The time I trust will come, perhaps within the lives of some of us, when the outline of this science will be clearly made out and generally recognised, when its nomenclature will be fixed, and its principles form a part of elementary instruction.
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I live in a constant state of hyperbole.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.
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Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.
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You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.
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You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
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Even as I was writing 'Empire State,' I knew there were more adventures for the main character, private detective Rad Bradley, to have. I also knew that the world was far larger than what I'd presented in book one.
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I believe in backing players and helping them out with their game.
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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Since I was 8 months old, till I was 12, I did commercials and ads and cute little stuff for kids. Then I had braces on my teeth. They took them off when I was 16, and then I started modeling more seriously and doing more fashion.
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I worked so hard to be so versatile in so many different things. There’s just not a lot of girls who can do ballet and flips and break dance and crazy hip-hop moves. So I would really encourage young dancers and actors to work to be as versatile as possible.
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I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.
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I'm the kind of person who wants the people around me to be comfortable, to laugh, and to have a fabulous time - I want them to be as happy as I am.
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If you're OK with being clumsy, it's funny. But if you are super embarrassed, people are going to laugh at you.
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Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.
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As long as there is democracy, there will be people wanting to play jazz because nothing else will ever so perfectly capture the democratic process in sound. Jazz means working things out musically with other people. You have to listen to other musicians and play with them even if you don't agree with what they're playing. It teaches you the very opposite of racism and anti-Semitism. It teaches you that the world is big enough to accommodate us all.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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I'm not a journalist. I have not gone to school for this.
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Order seems to come from searching for disorder, and awkwardness from searching for harmony or likeness, or the following of a system. The truest order is what you already find there, or that will be given if you don't try for it. When you arrange, you fail.
