Earle Birney Quotes
Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I've worked hard over the years, I've been injured and I've worked hard through it, and I've made it.
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There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
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From success you get a lot of things, but not that great inside thing that love brings you.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.
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I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.
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It is through gratitude for the present moment that the spiritual dimension of life opens up.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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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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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
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I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.
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People sniff out when you try to fake something or be something you are not.
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To me, romance and suspense go hand in hand. What's more suspenseful than wondering how two wonderful people can manage to get together in spite of the world going crazy around them?
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Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.
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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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On his bold visage middle ageHad slightly pressed its signet sage,Yet had not quenched the open truthAnd fiery vehemence of youth;Forward and frolic glee was there,The will to do, the soul to dare,The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,Of hasty love or headlong ire.
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How do you let go of attachment to things? Don't even try. It's impossible. Attachment to things drops away by itself when you no longer seek to find yourself in them.
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I think baking cookies is equal to Queen Victoria running an empire. There's no difference in how seriously you take the job, how seriously you approach your whole life.
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There was a time when I restored antique planes to support my art habit.
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I try to balance independent films with commercial films, and I've done a pretty good job of it over the years.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.
