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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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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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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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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I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.
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To achieve the mood of a warrior is not a simple matter. It is a revolution. To regard the lion and the water rats and our fellow men as equals is a magnificent act of a warrior's spirit. It takes power to do that.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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There is a huge body of evidence showing that people do better in their work when they know why they're doing it in the first place. They do better when they see what they're doing contributes to something in the world.
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I always work hard to have a very close connection to the fans.
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If I'm not nervous, if I don't have at least a little bit of the same self-doubt and anxious feelings I had when I started playing, then it will be time for me to go on. I must have that tension.
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I believe the man who will go down in posterity is the man who paints his own time and the scenes of everyday life around him.
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Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
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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.
