Allison Joseph Quotes
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I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.
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But only art and music have the power to bring peace.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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As authors, most - most authors, our art is portraying the human condition. Trying to show you what it's like to be somebody else, trying to make you feel for somebody else. That means you have to have a high degree of empathy.
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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
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I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
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I motivate what I see in young people because we employ about forty thousand young people in our various Chick-fil-A units. Some of them come to work because they need to work; others just work because they just like to work. There's nothing wrong with that.
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I'd like to do some crazy art installations and design some weird synthesizers and work with other people and make some fun stuff for a bit. Maybe tap into virtual reality stuff or maybe write another record... We'll see.
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You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.
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You cannot live to please everyone else. You have to edify, educate and fulfill your own dreams and destiny, and hope that whatever your art is that you're putting out there, if it's received, great, I respect you for receiving it. If it's not received, great, I respect you for not.
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My painting does not come from the easel.
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I was a visual artist primarily and a writer, even from a very young age.
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If I'm creating a free-form piece of art, I can make it look like anything I want, and nobody will say it's wrong.
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Well to be perfectly frank with you I never created art or have done demonstrations for anyone before myself artistically. I always do it to try to push my own envelope to be the best I can be.
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I'd say we do reach somewhat of a younger audience, but I think for the most part that younger audience is picking our music up from a brother or sister or even parent, who is turning them onto the band.
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The burden of citizenship is accepting that what is neither your fault nor your responsibility may be your problem.
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The separate atoms of a molecule are not connected all with all, or all with one, but, on the contrary, each one is connected only with one or with a few neighbouring atoms, just as in a chain link is connected with link.
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I always read the papers, the political bits.
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Poetry is such an ancient art, and I consider myself young within that art.
