Thomas Kinkade Quotes
The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
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The life of an actor is never one to get comfortable.
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It is good to know what a man is, and also what the world takes him for. But you do not understand him until you have learnt how he understands himself.
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One of my initial memories of being taken over by music was watching Paul McCartney on TV play a tribute to John Lennon. He was playing piano by himself and singing 'Imagine,' and I remember feeling an anxiety and shortness of breath.
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Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.
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My music is best understood by children and animals.
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Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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That's why I think the 'Scarpetta' series has worked so well because people like spending time with this character.
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In some extremely important ways, people are what you expect them to be, or at least they behave as you expect them to behave.
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My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.
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Chelsea have made a good investment for me, but I did not put any pressure on them.
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In the language of politics, there is only one translation for the phrase 'hope and change,' to wit: 'big, fat government.'
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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One of the things that a president needs in the face of genocide is resolve.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
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Acting is a bit of a heart and soul exercise with me. It's kind of all I've got.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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Who I have fought and how I have fought, it says something about me.
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Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
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The concept that an artist would be revered by popular culture is an immediate dismissal of his relevance as an artist.
