Morris Graves Quotes
I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
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I am definitely romantic, and I love romantic stories - that's why I keep making romantic movies.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
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Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
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As a child, I remember my own intensive interest in biology, birds, other animals and flowers and was determined at an early age to become a scientist.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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I'm only superstitious on the tennis court.
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I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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It's kinda nice to be remembered by your peers and your fans, because you can achieve a lot of success and be a creep too! But we try to be nice, just normal people.
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If you have an opportunity to use your voice you should use it.
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I think Americans are - particularly, independent voters are looking at Washington, and they see too many taxes, too much spending, too much debt, too many Washington takeovers, and they want to provide a check and a balance to what they see as a runaway, overreaching Washington government.
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What happens when you're a child professional is that you have to be, well, professional. You're taught not to have tantrums, to always people-please.
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Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
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Like the child, the creative writing student is posited as a centre of vulnerable creativity, needful of attention and authority.
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Forty Wall Street is probably the most beautiful tower in New York.
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Demolishing pretensions, especially worthy ones, is a hallmark of the baby boom.
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The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard.
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When you work at Google and tell these engineers that their skill set is relevant to somebody in Iran who doesn't have access to information in their country or the rest of the world, it really inspires them to want to do something about it. There is a genuine altruism that exists at this company, and that's why I'm here and not anywhere else.
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People don't have fun making music all the time.
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I paint to rest from the phenomena of the external world-to pronounce and to make notations of its essences with which to verify the inner eye.
