Arthur Lismer Quotes
It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.
Quotes to Explore
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I was playing in other rock bands. Any of those bands didn't last long.
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I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.
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I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.
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I was fairly solitary. I didn't like structured learning. People didn't seem to be my cup of tea.
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I would love to be an amazing singer. I take voice lessons. It's good to have as a dancer - to be able to sing and act, too, because for a Broadway show or musical, you have to be able to do everything.
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I've had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn't.
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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Jobs are critically important, but looking at economic change through the impact on jobs has always been a difficult way to think about economic progress.
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None of the parties want this conflict to go on.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
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The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments
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Scilicet et fluvius qui visus maximus ei, Qui non ante aliquem majorem vidit; et ingens Arbor, homoque videtur, et omnia de genere omni Maxima quae vidit quisque, haec ingentia fingit.
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images of children should only be considered pornographic if it could be proven the subject suffered
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The technology is just so far gone. It's just like back in the day you needed a suitcase just to have a cell phone. The battery was so heavy, it was like carrying a gallon of soda around with you all day.
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'The more they persecute me, the more the favour of God upon my life. The more they persecute me, the more God will increase my blessing.'
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
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If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
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I worked on movies with a lot of violence when I was a cinematographer, and it always bothered me. It's a personal thing. I wouldn't want my kids to see it. I certainly believe that freedom of expression shouldn't be taken away, but I also believe you can make movies that are thrilling and exciting without too much violence.
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It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.
