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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Growing up in South London, we went to a school where there were not that many Jewish kids. I love being Jewish in L.A.; it feels really normal. The culture seems to be integrated into Hollywood. Everyone uses Yiddish words like 'schlep' and 'schmooze.' That's what I love about New York, too.
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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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So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.
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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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Kids these days are kind of going back to Tupac and Snoop Doggy Dogg as examples of people that stand for something.
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Knowledge is death in my experience. The more I know about film, the harder it is to create freely.
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I was in a Printing-house in Hell, and saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation.
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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.
