Charles Webster Hawthorne Quotes
Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
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As a kid, I was always a tomboy, playing sport and doing martial arts. And I'm pretty opinionated - I've never been told that I'm a weak person.
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I feel like, as a celebrity, I have a responsibility to tell important stories.
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Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
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I like 'Ab Fab;' I love the crazy stuff they wear. That's my favourite! I love 'Ab Fab.'
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If you look at 'West Side Story,' a lot of those numbers are actually pretty cutty, but the cuts are always musically motivated.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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Could a man live by it, it were not unpleasant employment to be a poet.
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I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
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The most perfect technique is that which is not noticed at all.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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The Self of everyone, the Atma of everyone, the transcendental field of reality of everyone, is the same in everyone. Whether the body calls itself an American, German, Indian or Chinese, it doesn't matter.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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You know I was curious - I was interested in all kinds of mystery or deeper meanings in the paintings because I myself have not analyzed why they have turned out like this or like that.
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'I am not very clever about Americanisms - and I understand they change very quickly.'
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I won't ever get on stage at a comedy club when people know about it.
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Why have your eyes gone into their own room?
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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
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Once we get into the groove, we're kind of like long-distance runners - that adrenalin kicks in for me and I just keep running - and I don't stop!
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At eight, he had once told his mother that he wanted to paint air.
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I also really loved the sea when I was young, when I lived in Sicily, but unfortunately the sea here has been reduced to a trash dump. It's a horrible pain going to the beach; you risk getting an infection or getting tar all over you.
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It wasn’t verbal learning lessons… it was harnessing the broad strokes of the songs.
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Avoid distant views, paint objects close up. If the foreground is well done the distance will take care of itself.
