Charlotte Saunders Cushman Quotes
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.Charlotte Saunders Cushman
Quotes to Explore
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
Maajid Nawaz -
My eyes aren't special, my nose isn't special, my mouth isn't special.
Valerie Bertinelli -
I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky -
But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
Parker Posey -
I try to play my game and that's being emotional because I'm that kind of guy.
Dan Marino -
I'm a hot mess when it comes to any physical activity. My body just pours sweat. Not a lot of people know, but I always have my trusty inhaler with me. When I start to have even a little bit of an asthma attack, I just start dripping sweat. It's my body's emergency system.
Garrett Clayton
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People always come up to me and say that my smoking is bothering them... Well, it's killing me!
Wendy Liebman -
For a sunrise or a sunset, you're manic or you’re depressed.Will you ever feel ok?
Conor Oberst Bright Eyes -
I suppose because I do and can work in the theatre, I don't see work as closing down as an older woman.
Lindsay Duncan -
That's kind of like how jazz is sometimes. You're out there predicting the future, and no one believes you.
Branford Marsalis -
Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age.
Maya Angelou -
I've had a lot of careers in my life. When I think about it, I think every piece of that - from being a nurse, a farmer, dealing with real estate - has added to a skill set that I would have been able to use throughout my political career.
Patty Judge
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In 2009, at the Vancouver Peace Summit, I met a supporter of Free the Slaves, an NGO dedicated to eradicating modern-day slavery; weeks later, I flew down to Los Angeles and met with the director of Free the Slaves; thus began my journey into exploring modern-day slavery.
Lisa Kristine -
Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
Don Marquis -
If I know I have to memorize lines, I'm really gonna try to memorize lines. It's hard for me sometimes, because somebody wrote these words and you're trying really hard to get them the way they said it.
Amy Sedaris -
I am happy to receive any items of jewelry.
Katie Price -
I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.
Alexandra Fuller -
One of the things that makes me most happy about music is that I can look at a picture and see Da Brat, Missy, Lil Kim, Left Eye, and I know Aaliyah is a singer, but to see them all in one photo together hugging and laughing and really having genuine love for each other... I want to feel that with my hip hop sisters.
Niatia Jessica Kirkland
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Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.
Vivienne Westwood -
I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor.
Eddie Murphy -
I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
Aaron Koblin -
Poetry is one of the oldest of all art forms, and one of its powers for shamans and tribal leaders was the mnemonic.
Felix Dennis -
I would like to use stories as a springboard for children to make their own creative responses. I would like to encourage them to express themselves using music, art, film or whatever, and upload it to a website having been inspired by particular stories.
Malorie Blackman -
Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
Charlotte Saunders Cushman