Washington Allston Quotes
If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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Prog didn't really go away. Just took a catnap in the late Seventies. A new generation of fans discovered it, and a whole new array of bands and solo artists took it on into the new millennium.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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The divine wisdom which requires a division of labor has sown different abilities and tendencies in human nature and has enabled human beings to carry out the duty of establishing sciences and developing technology. The fulfillment of this duty is obligatory upon humanity as a whole, though not on every individual.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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Know what suits you. Now I understand proportion and recognise the shapes that look good on my figure.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives.
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Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
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Let your children go if you want to keep them.
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When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.
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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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Everything is pre-taped these days, but I'm a believer in, 'If you can't do it live, don't do it.'
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Even though I hated doing farming and wanted to just get out of the village, I would work from 5 in the morning till 5 in the evening.
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As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
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All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.
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If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.
