Hans Hofmann Quotes
Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I'm not a big fan of doing what my mother wants me to do, like any daughter.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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At the lowest cognitive level, they are processes of experiencing, or, to speak more generally, processes of intuiting that grasp the object in the original.
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Since grief only aggravates your loss, grieve not for what is past.
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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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It's more like can I build a group of characters and can I tell some universal truths that feel real and aren't formulaic in the spirit of filmmakers gone by who've told American stories that were personal and universal as well.
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Television shows and movies that are all white, I can't watch them. They totally alienate me.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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Bin Laden wasn't all that central to the terrorist network any more, but taking him down created a kind of national catharsis. It's been a really, really long time since we had something to celebrate that didn't involve a sports team. I'd rather it had been a non-death-related occasion, but we'll take what we can get.
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I find that with any good run on a show with good writers, they put something on paper, and you put something back on film, and that affects what they put on the paper the next time.
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Civilization is a failure. We need to think what we can do together in love and peace.
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Time travel is one of Assad's major achievements, the problem is he only perfected it one way: backward.
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There is no certainty in sciences where one of the mathematical sciences cannot be applied, or which are not in relation with these mathematics.
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Art is to me the glorification of the human spirit, and as such it is the cultural documentation of the time in which it is produced.
