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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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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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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The crew, like all Italian crews, was generous, warm, and enthusiastic.
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The advancement of technology has probably guided us more than anything else in one direction or another. I don't know, it's hard to say. We're so much more connected, but we've never been more fractured as a culture.
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No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.
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On the other hand, the waging of peace as a science, as an art, is in its infancy. But we can trace its growth, its steady progress, and the time will come when there will be particular individuals designated to assume responsibility for and leadership of this movement.
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Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
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What makes for great art is the courage to speak and write and paint what you know and care about.
