Edgar Alwin Payne Quotes
The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.Edgar Alwin Payne
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
Abu Bakar Bashir -
I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
Kate Moss -
It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
Rachel Kushner -
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
Kangana Ranaut -
Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
Walter Lang
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
Salman Rushdie -
I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.
Jack Lemmon -
An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
Nance O'Neil -
...the work of a poet who has a real talent, but not for words.
Randall Jarrell -
So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.
Edmund Burke -
I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
Benjamin Tucker
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…a man who sold meat but knew nothing of the poetry of the slaughterhouse…. Ted Arden was no ice-cream butcher.
Anthony Burgess -
I've been haunting bookshops and hiding behind display signs of TV chefs (Nigella is excellent to hide behind as she has a huge arse) as I spy on the short fiction section and see if anyone's tempted by my sweet bait. I've also been counting how many copies of the book are left in shops, and I've been covering other 'upcoming' authors’ books with mine.
Kevin Barry -
I've never really been a television watcher, so I never watch comedies.
Bill Pullman -
I am not a cynic.
Kevin Costner -
We want the big stories, of course, of the great men, but there's as much drama and interest and lessons to be learned in actions that people like us take on a daily basis.
Margot Lee Shetterly -
Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.
Jennifer O'Neill
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Whereas the good news had first been published for its own sake with no concern for success, now ineluctably success brought, as always, a desire for it. … They were not aware of what was happening, namely, that society was inverting Christianity instead of being subverted by it.
Jacques Ellul -
You gotta find that hook so everybody can grab on to it. So that you're true to the culture but, at the same time, how it relates to the larger tapestry.
Jimmy Smits -
It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself.
Salvador Dali -
Lots of women are doing time for love and fear.
M. William Phelps -
In the 70s and 80s, I made a good living. Have managed my funds carefully, will never have to go out and cadge quarters from the tourists.
W. P. Kinsella -
The study of art is a lifetime matter. The best any artist can do is to accumulate all the knowledge possible of art and its principles, study nature often and then practice continually.
Edgar Alwin Payne