Austin Osman Spare Quotes
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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Washington and Congress are steeped in history and tradition, and that's been very male-oriented.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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I had a really good time in New Orleans, although I had some very tragic times in Baton Rouge. Some guys beat me up and threw my horn away. 'Cause I had a beard, then, and long hair like the Beatles.
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I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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If you ever were bullied, you'll always remember that feeling.
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I like sleeping a lot.
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But my mother and father were married when my mom was 20 and my dad was 24.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.
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As a solo performer, it's total involvement. What I do is to break down the wall between audience and performer.
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You have a right to your opinion about the work that you're doing. An artist is as equally important as the director. If you believe that, you can work in any circumstances.
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The Bible says, 'Where there is no vision, the people perish.' Have you a vision? And are you undeviatingly pressing and pushing toward its accomplishment? Dreaming alone will not get you there. Mix your dreams with determination and action.
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I have the freedom of seeing it [churches and paintings of saints] with a non-Catholic eye without the guilt.
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There is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future - that community asks for and gets chaos.
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The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.
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The misery that oppresses you lies not in your profession but in yourself! What man in the world would not find his situation intolerable if he chooses a craft, an art, indeed any form of life, without experiencing an inner calling? Whoever is born with a talent, or to a talent, must surely find in that the most pleasing of occupations! Everything on this earth has its difficult sides! Only some inner drive - pleasure, love - can help us overcome obstacles, prepare a path, and lift as out of the narrow circle in which others tread out their anguished, miserable existences!
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Art is the instinctive application of the knowledge latent in the subconscious.
