Albert Pinkham Ryder Quotes
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Acting was a slow-burn thing. I found it was something I really, really liked doing, but it wasn't until my third year at drama school that I actually thought, 'Oh, right, I'm trained for this now; I'd better see if I can do it.'
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When I started acting, there were parts in English that I thought I just had to try it out and go to another country. I did a film in Ireland. It was my first film abroad.
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.
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My father was a socialist, so he would have thought that I shouldn't be a dame.
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When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie.
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There is nothing cooler than to have them singing your words back to you. The last show I did, I was kind of nervous about putting the mic out there, because you're not sure how it's going to go. But I did, and they sang the whole chorus. I thought, 'Holy crap! That is the coolest feeling.' It's the biggest rush ever.
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I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
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Ben Stiller, who I love and who is a friend and is such an incredible actor - he's hilarious, obviously, but I thought his performance in 'Greenberg' was extraordinary.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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At first, I did have that thought, like, 'Oh crap, what are we going to do after?' Then I realized 'Girl in a Country Song' was an honest, truthful song, and we were telling our truth, and that's all we have to do - write songs that are true and tell our stories.
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A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.
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I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
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Writing is a very lonely occupation. To write you need to concentrate, to concentrate you need to lock yourself away. No distractions; you want your stream of thought uninterrupted.
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I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.
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To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history.
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I just genuinely feel that that's what you do when you're an artist: You stick up for the people around you.
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A primitive power of artistic sensuousness speaks from the prints, which itself develops directly from the graphic technique that is tied to painstaking effort. Like the 'savage' who with patience cuts the figure.. ..out of the hard wood, so the artist creates perhaps his purest and strongest pieces.. ..following the primordial curse, if one may so understand it: from the sweat of thy brow shalt thou eat thy bread.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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What (some) bands do is go, 'It's not important that I'm a girl, it's just important that I want to rock.' And that's cool. But that's more of an assimilationist thing. It's like they just want to be allowed to join the world as it is; whereas I'm more into revolution and radicalism and changing the whole structure. What I'm into is making the world different for me to live in.
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Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
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I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.
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The artist should strive to express his thought and not the surface of it.
