Walter J. Phillips Quotes

A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.

Walter J. Phillips

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• One always wonders about roads not taken.

  

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• At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

  

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• He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.

  

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• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  

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• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

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• The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

  

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• And I don't believe that melodramatic feelings are laughable - they should be taken absolutely seriously.

  

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• It is very difficult to be taken seriously when you're introduced at a party to somebody as the fourth Mrs. Rex Harrison.

  

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• I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.

  

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• Family dinner in the Norman Rockwell mode had taken hold by the 1950s: Mom cooked, Dad carved, son cleared, daughter did the dishes.

  

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• My work ethic I learned at Miami High, and I have taken that with me.

  

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• We have great international experts within India telling us that the climate is changing, and actions has to be taken, otherwise China and India would be the countries most to suffer from climate change.

  

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• Periodically over the years I've always taken periods of time away from acting.

  

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• Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.

  

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• You know, I've learned a lot from every person I've collaborated with, from Madlib to Jean Grae and Hi-Tek, to Mos to DJ Quik, to even somebody like Jermaine Dupri. I've taken something important away from every experience.

  

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• I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

  

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• I can't really see myself as an artist. Now, to step out here and there, do it when I feel like it, that's a possibility. But for me to be a full-fledged, full-time artist in the industry, I don't think so.

  

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• I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.

  

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• It's so funny that Hollywood has become so entrenched in its formulas. Because what I've experienced is that the good stuff comes from places you don't expect.

  

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• English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable English Theatre.

  

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• A landscape painting in which composition is ignored is like a line taken from a poem at random: it lacks context, and may or may not make sense.

  

  Walter J. Phillips
  • Taken
  • Painting
  • Landscape