Audrey Flack Quotes
What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
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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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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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There are no Dave Marrs anymore.
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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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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
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In the comic-book lore, of course, you mutate post a traumatic event. You must have the mutant gene, but if something traumatic happens to you, usually at puberty, then that mutation manifests itself.
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When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.
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I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me - I don't remember when I wasn't playing piano. My second grade talent show was the first time I performed my own thing. I dressed up as Dracula and played a song called 'Monster Rock' that I wrote. And I won.
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Art is nothing but the expression of our dream; the more we surrender to it the closer we get to the inner truth of things, our dream-life, the true life that scorns questions and does not see them.
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With the offspring of genius, the law of parturition is reversed; the throes are in the conception, the pleasure in the birth.
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I think part of the reason the Tea Party has resonated is that people feel disempowered. The Tea Party says, "You are out of power because of big government." Then some Democrats tend to respond by saying, "No, you're wrong, you're not out of power." It's a sense that doesn't resonate with people's lived experience.
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What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
