Hanya Yanagihara Quotes
Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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You know how you can be romantic? You can be romantic by going to a beautiful setting, sitting on a park bench, and getting good ole-fashioned golden arches, a.k.a. McDonald's. That's probably the best I can do romantically.
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My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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The Russo brothers are the best people ever, and they cast me in 'Happy Endings.' I did text Joe Russo to say, 'I don't think my character dies, so if you need a local news cameraman to show up in 'Captain America 2'... I know it doesn't make sense, but just hear me out on this!' He was really cool about it and turned me down right away.
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Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
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Acting and making art is just something I love to do, and I love to tell stories that feel important, honest and necessary.
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I was a pretty pretentious kid. I was always making art.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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The climate at country radio is very, 'Let's keep it up-tempo,' probably best if you're a guy.
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To keep art stimulating, it's important to open it up to new horizons, which includes showing it in unexpected contexts.
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Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.
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Everyone thinks that 'Chinatown' is the best screenplay. I'm not sure it is.
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Punk's influence on music, movies, art, design and fashion is no longer in doubt. It is used as the measurement for what is cool.
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I have been fighting the best. I am just 26 and have fought in the biggest arenas.
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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A performance art piece is unprecedented. It is difficult to censor since it has a good possibility of never being done before.
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It makes me happy to think that this world of art-as-investment is a minuscule fraction of the art world overall. Most people who create, trade and own art do it for a much simpler reason. They just like it.
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To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art.
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Children up to the age of seven are like sponges. They look up to adults and copy what they do. So I thought if I could create a positive role model - a superhero, if you like - who moves around and has a balanced lifestyle - then they would be motivated to move more.
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Most of the early part of an actor's career, you do the jobs you get.
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The baby boomers' politics have covered a wide band of silliness, from the Weather Underground to the Timothy McVeigh types. The great majority of us are well in the middle of that spectrum, but still, there's been both leftie silliness and right-wing silliness.
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All the foods that you regularly eat are ones that you learned to eat. Everyone starts life drinking milk. After that, it's all up for grabs. From our first year of life, human tastes are astonishingly diverse.
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Florence is perhaps best known for being the seat of Renaissance art, and rightly so: A greatest-hits collection of artists passed through its streets - Michelangelo, Leonardo, Botticelli, and Brunelleschi among them.
