Charles E. Burchfield Quotes
It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.
Charles E. Burchfield
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The Talented Tenth of the Negro race must be made leaders of thought and missionaries of culture among their people.
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
Ian Anderson
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Obviously, after every film you do, you wonder what you're going to do next.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
Sadie Jones
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Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something's wrong. He's not right in the brain.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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I can't speak for boys because I'm not one! But I just imagine they think differently.
Sabrina Carpenter
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When I lived in London when I did 'Wicked' there, everyone told me the audiences might be much more reserved, but I found it was completely the opposite. They jumped to their feet sooner, even more enthusiastically than the New York audiences did, and they were just as warm and as enthusiastic and supportive as New York.
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I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
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If we had said 30 years ago that we were going to have only two incidents with casualties, we would have thought, 'Boy, that's great. To me, that indicates that the program has really exceeded what the early expectations were.
Alan Shepard
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The very first show I did was 'Fame L.A.' Everyone had talent... it was either dancing or acting or something like that. I was a singer, so I got my first role.
Christian Kane
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Union Square Cafe is all soul, not brain.
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Some nights stay up till dawn,
as the moon sometimes does for the sun.
Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way
of a well, then lifted out into light.
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I prefer younger men. In some ways, they are much more open to a woman being stronger and independent then some of the men my age.
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I am overrun, infested with a menagerie of desires.
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It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.
Charles E. Burchfield
