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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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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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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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.
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I don't think there is anything hard at all about having a lot of songs. It makes it easier to be less precious about them, and know that everybody's going to want to work on some of them.
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In an aphorism, aptness counts for more than truth.
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I don't like persuaded sitters. I never could paint a cat if the cat had any scruples, religious, superstitious, or otherwise, about sitting.
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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.
