Sun Ra Quotes
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I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional bursts of anger. But if they did, I wouldn't be able to write my novels or paint.
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Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I'm no actor, and I've got 64 pictures to prove it.
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When I'm away from the field, I show a little more emotion and stuff.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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Sex is emotion in motion.
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You know, I put my little brother in the movies and he's still in the pictures. My mother makes me put him in the pictures.
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Before anything else, I started painting bulls and matadors. That was my initiation to paint.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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Stop taking pictures and start experiencing life.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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I thought 'Pineapple Express' was hilarious.
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I take my inspiration for the song writing from little experiences, not even if I've experienced them myself but say if something has made me sad, I will use that emotion. I just use everyday life and write about it.
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I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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I love red and I think it's more than just a color: It evokes an emotion. When you wear red, it makes you feel empowered and sexy. For me, sin is all about temptation and the power of seduction. Red Sin is a combination of those elements to make women feel irresistible.
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Music is truly love itself, the purest, most ethereal language of the emotions, embodying all their changing colors in every variety of shading and nuance.
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When we paint, whether it is on our bodies for ceremony or on bark or canvas for the market, we're not just painting for fun or profit, we're painting as we always have done to demonstrate our continuing link with our country and the rights and responsibilities we have to it.
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Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.
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Motley Crue, collectively and individually, have done things on our own terms.
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The first work of the director is to set a mood so that the actor's work can take place, so that the actor can create. And in order to do that, you have to communicate, communicate with the actors. And direction is about communication on all levels.
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We actually make all of our own music videos. Often we come up with the visual concepts at the same time as writing the music.
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With music you can express any emotion, you can paint pictures.
