M. C. Escher Quotes
I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
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All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.
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I was the girl who nobody thought would ever get married. I was going to be a fashion nun the rest of my life. There are generations of them, those fashion nuns, living, eating, breathing clothes.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.
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Whether people be of high or low birth, rich or poor, old or young, enlightened or confused, they are all alike in that they will one day die.
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You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
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I do want to finish my education. I just don't think that Boston has a big enough market for what I want to do.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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I love playing women, and I think that this is a throughline to a lot of the characters I've played - they all have this aspect of being wronged. And I think, a lot of the time, the characters are actually wronged by themselves, and they find someone else to blame it on.
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Life is hard. It is not too short, it is too long. But you have to learn how to live; you have to have a sense of humour.
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In China, I realized that if you visit often enough and learn the language, you will be assimilated, but you'll still be kept at arm's length; you'll always be looked on as a foreigner.
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I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.
