Norman Rockwell Quotes
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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I actually started out as a poet in high school. I published in small literary magazines for probably about ten years. I entered the Yale Younger Poet contest every year, until I was too old to be a younger poet, and I never got more than a form rejection letter from them.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.
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I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.
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You could give the best audition ever and not get the role or not get a callback because you just weren't what they were looking for.
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I've been on tour since I was 16, and I always do meet-and-greets before and after shows, so you kind of build these friendships with people. I have girls come up to me and tell me exactly what's going on in their love lives.
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I was number one in the ratings four times last year and twice this season. What could be more damn equal than that? If they get any more equal, I don't want it.
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Americans must outgrow the unbecoming arrogance that leads us to assert that America somehow owns a monopoly on goodness and truth - a belief that leads some to view the world as but a stage on which to play out the great historical drama: the United States of America versus the Powers of Evil.
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I go to various boot camps 4-5 times a week, and I try to get some Pilates in there to thin and tone.
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I don't know what has caused this reawakening in academia. Obama? The GOP's assaults on science and on patients? Jon Stewart? I'm not at all sure. I just know I don't feel nearly as alone in academia as I used to. I'm feeling increasingly surrounded by fellow Ph.D.'s and by M.D.'s who seem to be taking a lot of things personally.
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A lot of people look at playing overseas as a step down from the NBA. And, yes it is a step down from the NBA money-wise, but there is just as good of talent overseas as in the NBA. Not better talent.
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I have a feeling that the kids are slowly returning to the roots, with this new Metal trend. I can really feel there are a lot of exciting young bands doing kinds of underground Metal, which of course is a lot more dirty than the stuff that we do, but I like it all the same.
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Juilliard's mission statement is learn about the classics so you can use that as a springboard to anything that comes your way.
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We need to just study what other countries have done. There are examples of a strong partnership between the defence establishment and the private industry.
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No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
