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When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.

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• Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.

  

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• Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?

  

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• For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.

  

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• I am a self-critical perfectionist.

  

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• I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.

  

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• I get a lot of disbelief that my accent could actually be real, which seems strange.

  

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• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

  

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  • World
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• In some causes silence is dangerous.

  

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• There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

  

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• For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.

  

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• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

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• Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.

  

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• How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies?  The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.

  

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• In the face of a world where economic hardships often ground the best of the human spirit into the worst, love provided a pathway into hidden chambers of the spirit where nobility and compassion might be salvaged, resurrected, and made stronger.

  

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• I think of the French polymath Boris Vian (1920-1959) who burned the candles of his creative genius at every end he could light. And I think of the way Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) hammered with

  

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• Good humor isn't a trait of character, it is an art which requires practice.

  

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• Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

  

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• I think the whole policy of pre-emptive war is a serious, serious mistake.

  

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• In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

  

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• You're president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

  

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• When it comes to my art work I would say that I am a perfectionist, although my sketchbook, and my process, is a mess.

  

  Noma Bar
  • Art
  • Mess
  • Perfectionist