Augustus Saint-Gaudens Quotes
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I put my friends and family first. I'm really just a normal thirteen-year-old girl who has a different hobby than most girls my age. Acting is kind of an extracurricular activity.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.
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In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
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It has an air about it of having strolled in from the street with a few tricks up its sleeve, and if everybody would relax, please, it would do its best to pass the time whimsically.
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it's probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for workers who are here legally than for those who are not. It's also safer for the workers and employers have a more consistent pool of workers.
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One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
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I've always been able to sense the relationship between two people based on how one person says the other's name!
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At least I can say that I'm honest.
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The threat is desertification. My response is a sandstone wall made from solidified sand.
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Tell me, George, if you had it to do all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?
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They are smoking crack.
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I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.
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I guess you're happy if you have some kind of balance in you. I'm a human being. I have days when I feel paralyzed, days when I feel like a slug. Then I have days when I have good energy, I've read the newspaper and I've done different things.
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There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.
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Art, well good art at least, takes you to a place you go during the experience of it, and then after you experience it you are different.
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What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art.
