William Cowper Quotes
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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With all the great products that are apparently out there that are undetectable, for me to take something like that... when people take things that now aren't even being tested for, does it make any sense?
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.
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In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
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My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
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I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.
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Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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In all these years, I've understood one thing: that it's only your work that should do all the talking.
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My father worked, and my mother played bridge. Every time I went out of the house, I was chauffeur-driven with my nanny next to me to stop me being kidnapped.
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Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.
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I don't buy art just to make artists happy any more than I want to make them sad if I sell their work.
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The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
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Blest be the art that can immortalize.
