Laura Nyro Quotes
Sage's lightOh and EdisonHe made two sparks igniteAll you doIt's a scientific chain reaction
Quotes to Explore
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
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More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
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At the beginning, I experienced writing as a sort of constraint. Starting so young as a writer is pitiable: it's beyond your powers; you have to lay bare things that are very heavy, and you don't have the means for that.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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You try to live the experience but keep your feet on the ground, not let it go to your head, because that's when you start making mistakes.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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The actual game is only part of the Senior Bowl experience - the practices are equally important.
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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I'm not sure what 'cheeky' means. I hear it used so much and in so many different ways, I can't identify the real meaning of it.
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You need characters who want things. They want love, they want recognition, they want happiness.
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Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
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With all this dolling up and featuring of the news, it's getter harder and harder just to get the facts of the story.
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My audience went, 'Wait, why is she singing jazz? What's going on?' And then they went, 'Oh, because she can. Because she loves it.' And jazz, a music invented by the African-American community, is the greatest art form, I believe, to have ever come out of this country.
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When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
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What we should admire is the acute fulfillment of the unspoken assumptions, the smooth harmony of the whole activity, which only become evident in the final success.
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We will continue to pursue anybody who violates our franchise covenants, trade agreements, or anything, for that matter, that is ours.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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I felt like an ugly duckling back in school. I was a complete tomboy with short hair. Never in my dreams did I imagine that I would walk the ramp with 6-inch heels. My friends can't believe that I'm an actor, because I was such an introvert in school.
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The thing about conceptual art is that it has no solid or finite meaning. So the work can exist simultaneously in many minds at once, and all those minds can see it differently. The artist offers the clues. The spectator offers the reading. You see what you want to see.
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I seriously doubt I would ever have written the first story had I not been a lawyer. I never dreamed of being a writer. I wrote only after witnessing a trial.
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Sage's lightOh and EdisonHe made two sparks igniteAll you doIt's a scientific chain reaction
