Winslow Homer Quotes
There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I love a real-life, movie moment in living color.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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Even as our economy starts to pick up, and new jobs are created, there is a risk that young people in Britain won't get the chances they deserve because businesses will continue to look elsewhere.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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Home is where one starts from.
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You can't be responsible for the way people respond to you. You're only responsible for yourself.
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Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.
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It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
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The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.
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No artifact is a work of art if it does not help to humanize us. Without art...our world would have remained a jungle.
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What could be more important to the pursuit of happiness than the right to choose your spouse without asking a Washington politician for permission?
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There is no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way.
