Isaac Barrow Quotes
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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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I wasn't thinking of a sequel when I finished 'Life Class.' What changed my mind was the perception that the characters had a lot of life left in them, a lot of unresolved conflicts, and also I became interested in the Tonks pastel portraits of facially disfigured soldiers and in the whole area of facial reconstruction.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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I use the PhotoReady Foundation almost every day, and their lip glosses are fantastic.
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I talked about becoming stupid, but I've always been stupid. Fortunately I've been just smart enough to realize that I'm stupid.
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When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
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I originally just wanted to be an artist.
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After conducting Wagner, Beethoven's triple concerto is like taking an Alka Seltzer.
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Every entrepreneur knows how agonizingly difficult it is to make the decision to give it your all, knowing that failure is inevitable; the successful ones know that the only way to get back up is through learning from that failure.
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I wrote 'Buried Child' in a trailer at an old ranch house we had in California.
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The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
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I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.
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I think it's up to the parents to discern what their child is watching on television.
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Should we have background checks, waiting periods? To drive a car you have to pass a test that shows you know how to drive your car safely, you should have to do the same thing with guns.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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One way to reduce the need for layoffs would be to cut back on hours, spreading the available work among more employees.
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Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics;we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.
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I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.
