Sylvia Fraser Quotes
Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I was always very aware of the nature of the place where I was growing up in Gulfport, Mississippi, how that place was shaping my experience of the world. I had to go to the Northeast for graduate school because I felt like I had to get far away from my South, be outside it, to understand it.
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Being inexhaustible, life and nature are a constant stimulus for a creative mind.
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Dealing with those personalities and the people who run this music thing has been most challenging. It's hard to really communicate things to people who run a business yet forget the nature of the business. They only look at the bottom line and the financial return, you know, they forget what it is they're packaging. It's art.
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
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Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.
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Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.
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The good man is the friend of all living things.
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Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity.
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It is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
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An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.
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Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.
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The creative process lies not in imitating, but in paralleling nature - translating the impulse received from nature into the medium of expression, thus vitalizing this medium. The picture should be alive, the statue should be alive, and every work of art should be alive.
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Existence is as deep a verity: Without the dual, where is unity? And the 'I am'' cannot forbear to be;But from its primal nature forced to frame Mysteries, destinies of various name, Is forced to give that it has taught to claim.
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A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.
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We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.
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I had the privilege of being able to choose, or at least have the opportunity to work at, being anything but an actor.
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I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.
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Miracles do not happen in contradiction to nature, but only in contradiction to what we know of nature.
