Audrey Flack Quotes
What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
Quotes to Explore
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I tend to have a pattern of playing misunderstood characters.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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I definitely love Australia. I've been to Sydney and Melbourne a couple of times, and I love those places.
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I'd never read 'Lord of the Rings' until I was asked to play Gandalf, so I didn't really know it was a frightfully famous book.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I auditioned in Chicago for Juilliard and didn't get in. I was basically living in a back room of my parents' house, paying rent and not doing anything with my life. I'd like to say it was patriotic to join the Marines, but it was also that I was doing nothing honorable with my life and spending too much time at McDonald's.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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My father was dark skinned because he was Tatar. Sometimes Tatars can look Brazilian.
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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There are no Dave Marrs anymore.
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The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.
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I don't think there is anything magical about the language of flowers in real life or in my book.
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I've always been drawn to the best writing that I can find. I don't care if it's in movies or theater or whatever - if you want to be in front of an audience, you have to do writing you believe in.
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Good friends find pleasure in one another's company. Let us know pleasure in the company of our best Friend, a Friend who can do everything for us, a friend who loves us beyond measure. Here in the Blessed Sacrament we can talk to him straight from the heart. We can open our souls to him, tell him what we need, beg him for powerful graces. We are perfectly free to approach the King of the universe with full confidence and without fear.
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Editorial cartoons should be smart and substantive, provocative and informative. They should stir passions and deep emotions. Editorial cartoons should be the catalyst for thought, and frankly speaking, if you can make politicians think, that is an accomplishment itself.
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I loooved Sleater-Kinney like a crazy person.
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Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
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What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
