Ali Banisadr Quotes
Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
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I'm not being offered a constant stream of wonderful parts with wonderful directors that would keep me away from the theatre. When they turn up, I do them.
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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I do think that 'Pretty Little Liars' has raised the bar in how social media can tie into the fan base watching the show.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.
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When the art world is done wrong, a reader's faith is lost and possibly not recuperable.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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I never, never thought one day I will sing at La Scala or I will get the Grammy. I'm lucky. I work a lot with a teacher, with my coach.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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I used to play the trombone and the trumpet, which I still have, but I haven't picked up for a long time.
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Decision making in a democracy depends above all on knowledge and not just the intel available to presidents and policymakers.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.
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As much as I'm enjoying stuff out here in Hollywood, I will always think of myself as a comic-book writer who does film and television, not a film and TV writer who occasionally does comics.
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I don't normally do pure historical work.
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I'm a happy camper when I'm doing both: writing and art every day, along with a dose of reading and adventures into what else is being done by other artists/writers and poets. Like breathing. I've written poems or fictions to go with a painting. The source for the inspiration of the art often eludes me.
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Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.
