Augustus John Quotes
The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.
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Funny is an attitude.
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It's a vanity to think that a legitimate shamanistic experience can be purchased.
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As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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I do know that I've read somewhere that it's been statistically proven that in times of war, horror films are much more popular. I don't know why that is. You'd think it'd be the opposite. You'd think people would want to escape from it.
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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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The year I turned 16, I spent the weeks before Christmas dropping hints to my parents about how much I wanted - no, needed - my own transportation.
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People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
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I read that when cats are cuddling and kneading you, and you think it's cute, they're really just checking your vitals for weak spots.
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If I could find anything blacker than black, I'd use it.
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If you're eight and you live in Los Angeles and everybody has toys and you go to a country that has a Marxist dictatorship and there are no toy stores and nobody speaks English and it's blazing hot every day and they only have fish, which you don't like, then you tend not to appreciate the cultural lessons you're learning.
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I went from being a guy who was sparingly being used on television to being the World Heavyweight Champion and the focus of a lot of the storylines on Smackdown.
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Even a war zone looks peaceful in most places, most of the time.
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I do not believe we can blame genetics for adultery, homosexuality, dishonesty and other character flaws.
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We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor.
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You can send a lot of instruction through laughter.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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In the wake of such bad news, it was heartening to know that what 'Sense8' stood for meant so much to so many people.
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When shooting in real spaces, the work of a cinematographer begins where location meets production design meets time of day. No movie light will ever look as real as the sun, so scheduling becomes truly paramount to naturalistic lighting.
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The... promptitude with which many painters, on arriving at an entirely new and unfamiliar place, settle down to work at once, never fails to astonish me: it seems indecent, like button-holing a complete stranger.
