Brad Listi Quotes
Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary biography or a memoir of some kind. And doing so almost always deepens my enjoyment of the author and her work.
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I'm not an architectural composer.
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To be very honest, I never thought I would graduate from high school. I got very lucky to get into an alternative high school, which really saved my butt.
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As a model, I am at the mercy of everybody else. It's much more of a situation where I go to work, put the clothes on, get in front of the camera, and then go home. But in that process, I never really have control over any of it.
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Agreement has now been reached that negotiations on Turkey's accession to the European Union can and will begin in the very near future.
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Nothing really happened - I was elected in '86 - until 1992, and that's when the Anita Hill debacle happened.
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Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time.
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Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
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The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.
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The blood of a goat will shatter a diamond.
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The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all.
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In order to be effective you need not only virtue but also mental strength.
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Politics is far more complicated than physics.
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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
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Holdsworth is so damned good that I can't cop anything. I can't understand what he's doing. I've got to do this [does two-hand tapping], whereas he'll do it with one hand.
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Having an identity that is specifically linked to your age or how you look would definitely set you up for pain because these things will change. If we have a broader sense of who we are, our identity never becomes threatened.
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Is this the final treachery of time, that the old become a burden upon the young?
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As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt I knew them... It is his empathy for the sitter, combined with his enjoyment and dexerity in handling paint that captured my imagination then, and is what I am striving for still.
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Oftentimes, if a writer really gets her hooks into me, I'll want to read interviews, or listen to an interview, or read a literary biography or a memoir of some kind. And doing so almost always deepens my enjoyment of the author and her work.
