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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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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Lack of courage or means often deters the European woman from more independent business activity, and this in spite of increasing freedom to choose her occupation, in spite of brilliant examples of successful undertakings of women, in photography, hotel or boarding-house management, dress-making, etc.
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Pitch tip: Speak confidently about your product, but be able to admit when you need more information, and get it to the people you're pitching quickly after the meeting.
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The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.
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Dean Acheson was one of the very best and brightest of the men who ever came to Washington.
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God is not outside this earthly case of ours.
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Drawing on real life is what novelists do. It's not the same as reconstructing real life, which is what historians do.
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I remember when I did 'Mrityudand' there was this big hoo-ha, and people were asking me why I was doing an art movie, and I would just tell them that, 'You know, what's the big deal, it's a movie.' I'm so glad that's a thing of the past.
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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.
