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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My grandfather died before I started making films, but I definitely learnt this from him: believe in your own judgment and stick to your guns - 99% of the time, you'll be glad you did.
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Shakespeare does a great job of taking 5,000-year-old stories and turning them into modern pieces that are true to the original essence but are completely remade.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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I get interested in the various ways that music is being done in the culture, and some of it I like thoroughly enough to want to learn about it. The way I have been successful at doing that is to become part of it.
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Since the very beginning of culture, what we seem to be are animals which take in raw material and excrete it imprinted with ideas.
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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.
