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.
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This is why I have always said that it would be better if Muslims were poor.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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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.
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In the calculus of western interests, there is no suffering, whatever its scale, which cannot be justified. Chechens, Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans, Pakistanis are of little importance.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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I followed my instincts; I followed my intuition, and it paid off.
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You know, having raised animals all my life for 50-something years, I would say that you know, I'm fascinated by cats.
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Language expresses people's thinking and it was by a Word that God created the world and preserves it.
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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.
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I don't think Ed Horman could be dishonest if his life depended on it.
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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.
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...the work of a poet who has a real talent, but not for words.
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So to be patriots as not to forget we are gentlemen.
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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.
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The world knows only two, - that's Rome and I.
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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.
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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.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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I've never really been a television watcher, so I never watch comedies.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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I hated my father long before I knew there was a word for hate.
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Intrinsic to the concept of a translator's fidelity to the effect and impact of the original is making the second version of the work as close to the first writer's intention as possible. A good translator's devotion to that goal is unwavering. But what never should be forgotten or overlooked is the obvious fact that what we read in a translation is the translator's writing. The inspiration is the original work, certainly, and thoughtful literary translators approach that work with great deference and respect, but the execution of the book in another language is the task of the translator, and that work should be judged and evaluated on its own terms. Still, most reviewers do not acknowledge the fact of translation except in the most perfunctory way, and a significant majority seem incapable of shedding light on the value of the translation or on how it reflects or illuminates the original.
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When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.
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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.
