Agrippina Vaganova Quotes
Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I've always had tremendous support from my parents. I think there's a myth that gay people have lousy relationships with their parents.
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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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What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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For me, I went from showering at the YMCA in L.A., eating chicken sandwiches and ramen noodles if lucky, and going from couch to couch. I'm a real story. I know the struggle.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Even if the coverage is leaning toward you or whatever it may be, there's ways to beat it.
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I've always wanted to be a singer.
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We got guys who can score. Everybody knows guys can score.
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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The highest powers in our nature are our sense of moral excellence, the principple of reason and reflection, benevolence to our creatures and our love of the Divine Being.
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A nude by Degas is chaste. But his women wash in tubs!
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Justified or not, the Supreme Court has a kind of sacred status in American life. For whatever reason, Presidents can safely run against Congress, and vice versa, but I think there is an inherent popular aversion to assaults on the court itself. Perhaps it has to do with an instinctive belief that life needs umpires.
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Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.
