Arthur Davison Ficke Quotes
The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.
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Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.
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Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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I don't do the super-clean-living L.A. thing.
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If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
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I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
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Everybody thinks I'm very clean and sort of upright, don't they?
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The first acting I ever did was an Italian commercial. Once I did that, I said, 'this acting thing is awesome.'
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Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.
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People in misery is what most important in art.
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It is the downfall of evil, that it never sees far enough ahead.
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
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‘…The senior Mr Denham’s,’ he said, with deadly Eastern realism, ‘will perhaps only be better in the grave.
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I don’t question your loyalty, Skade. I just wonder exactly what it is you’re loyal to.
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By and large, horror fiction is the most difficult to domesticate because part of the point is that it's one step ahead – or behind – everybody else's taste. And I'm not really convinced I'd like it to change. There's something very healthy about horror fiction being always a little bit on the outside. It's the wild-dog genre.
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The film business has changed so dramatically from when I started.
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The grand style follows suit with all great passion. It disdains to please, it forgets to persuade. It commands. It wills.
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We cannot eradicate violence if we do not build strong, inclusive communities.
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The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.
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Of all Discourse , governed by desire of Knowledge, there is at last an End , either by attaining, or by giving over.
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The collector attempts always to acquire the best, and his knowledge of what is best is always widening. His is the task of judging between degrees of perfection.
