Michelangelo Quotes
Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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Typically, if you buy a studio with a library, their library is pretty well licensed out many years in advance, so you are not really gaining access to the programming in that way.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I've never graced the cover of a fashion magazine.
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I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
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In fact, it is Shakespeare who gives us the map of the mind. It is Shakespeare who invents Freudian Psychology. Freud finds ways of translating it into supposedly analytical vocabulary.
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I escaped one time. In 1971 I was in the free world for six weeks.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Some of my friends have urged me to tell people the basic story, but 'for God’s sake don’t mention the reptiles.'
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What a comfort to know that God is a poet.
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I did two or three plays every summer.
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I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
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Sanctions should be reserved, if we think international, for extremely serious situations.
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Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this.
