Studs Terkel Quotes
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I grew up. I began to think the United States had some problems that really required the help of artistic people to solve. And I gave myself permission to be a writer instead of a civil servant.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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I went to quite an academic school, and all my friends were going to university, but even before my acting jobs, I didn't want to do that. I didn't want to spend another three years being institutionalised, and I feel that getting out of that system benefited me in quite a few ways.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
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I know I have a responsibility to the fans.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.
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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.
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Football is my sanctuary. It's where I go to escape. It's where I'm most happy.
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Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.
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All of the troubles that some people have in life is that which they married into.
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If Assad continues to conduct strikes against the Free Syrian Army at will, it would be very difficult for them to have any success against ISIS.
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You can't break Russian people, you know? 'Cos we're made in cold snow. We're very resistant.
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That was the danger Samuel Butler jestingly prophesied in Erewhon, the danger that the human being might become a means whereby the machine perpetuated itself and extended its dominion.
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I'm not an overly skilled piano player or organ player at all, but I think I'm the right piano and organ player for the Heartbreakers. And I've been the right piano and organ player for a lot of sessions that I've been called on.
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Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
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If you're a baby about the media, as I was, you can't imagine what it's like when the great approval machine shines its beam on you, when every time you cross the street someone comes out of a manhole to talk about your haircut.
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The spirit of a painting is very hard to explain and articulate. I can't say it's not intentional because that is the mark I'm trying to hit, however I don't feel I have much control over it.
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Most of us have jobs that are too small for our spirits.
