Alexej von Jawlensky Quotes
..human faces are for me only suggestions to see something else in them – the life of colour, seized with a lover's passion.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It made me a little more confident about my style.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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I think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.
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I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
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Dude, I turn into a six-year-old when I come to Disneyland. It's amazing. My eyes glass over and my blood pressure goes down. I'm just like everybody else. I turn into a big kid when I come here. It's the happiest place on earth, right?
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Most of the movies I saw growing up were viewed as totally disposable, fine for quick consumption, but they have survived 50 years and are still growing.
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I make M-rated games for adults, you know, with guys wearing sunglasses at night and trench coats.
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My father was a small-town banker. He became very ill when I was 10 years old, and we went to California three years later in an attempt to recover his health, which never happened.
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While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.
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History develops, art stands still.
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I met my wife, Nia Vardalos, at The Second City, and she was chomping at the bit to move to L.A. I was afraid of having to start all over again, which happened. But we got lucky.
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Partisan politics is not my passion.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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Cruelty stares at me from the butcher's face. I tread amidst carcasses. I am in the presence of the slain. The death-set eyes of beasts peer at me and accuse me of belonging to the race of murderers. Quartered, disembowelled creatures on suspended hooks plead with me. I feel myself dispossessed of the divinity.
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The sweetest smiles hold the darkest secrets.
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..human faces are for me only suggestions to see something else in them – the life of colour, seized with a lover's passion.
