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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I always wanted to be a basketball player. Nothing more, nothing less.
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In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.
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I've been accused many times of not talking very much, but I guess I don't believe in talking things to death. You can talk too much on most anything and it stops being productive. There is a time for action. Eventually you have to pull the trigger.
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But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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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.
