William Hogarth Quotes
I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is my stage, and men and women my players exhibited in a 'dumb' show.
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I was brought up with beautiful music - Nat King Cole and Glen Miller from my dad, and my mum loved Judy Garland and Doris Day - brilliant stuff. Through my brothers and sisters I heard David Bowie and The Specials, The Carpenters, Meatloaf and The Rolling Stones.
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In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.
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I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.
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What I do find enormously gratifying is the reviews my books get from the American press. They are so on the ball compared to anywhere else. It's so satisfying to get a review that conveys the reader understood precisely what I was trying to get at.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I think people have a hard time thinking that I could've done a sitcom.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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The extras are a nice bonus feature, but the main incentive is the musical experience.
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The importance of the arts to the societies in which they thrive is well documented.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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Usually, when inspiration strikes late, the light of day reveals that I haven't gotten an idea for a book so much as a psychiatric case study.
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All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.
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To be successful for a moment because of one movie doesn't mean anything.
Nastassja Kinski -
The problem is with men. I know I shouldn't say this, but they've shrouded and hidden women to hide their incompetence.
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I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
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Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.
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I turned my thoughts to a still more novel mode... to compose pictures on canvas similar to representations on the stage... my picture is my stage, and men and women my players exhibited in a 'dumb' show.
