Okakura Kakuzo Quotes
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.

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Age for me is just a number.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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I'm crazy about jewelry; swimwear and jewelry.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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Everything can be satirized.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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Satire is, by definition, offensive. It is meant to make us feel uncomfortable. It is meant to make us scratch our heads, think, do a double-take, and then think again.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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It's different for every project. Some parts are quicker than others to get and know; sometimes right up until the last moment you're just praying that something will click. But you can only do a certain amount of work and then at some point you've got to think: 'OK, I'm just going to have to leap now.'
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I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.
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In reality, I don't see myself as a man hunter. In fact, when it comes to love, I am rarely the one to make the first move.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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I'm a really good friend; I'm terrible to date.
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I'm noticing a lot of the big bloggers who've posted about politics are experiencing an ugly backlash. Readers are angry because they went to the bloggers' sites for a laugh, not a lecture. Again, it's a question of being appropriate for the audience.
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You can never step into the same book twice, because you are different each time you read it.
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I did B com but realised that it was not my cup of tea. I was always fascinated by animation, and after I completed my course, I wanted to go abroad and pursue it. I used to sketch a lot and was rather serious about it. But all this was until I joined films.
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Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.
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Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.