Edward Betts Quotes
It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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For anyone who works in front of an audience there is no thrill quite like that of feeling and hearing the evidence of the audience members' enjoyment. Laughter and applause really are powerful.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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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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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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You can blow on the dice all you want, but whether they come up 'seven' is still a function of random luck.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you got to have is faith and discipline when you're not a winner.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who's behind it. A thriller, or a suspense, is a howdunit. You know what happened, and you usually know who did it, but you keep reading because you want to know how they pulled it off.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Our music comes from our hearts - and it always has.
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I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?
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My views line up with Mick Mulvaney's views pretty much exactly.
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My job is to create myself a career that I can go to sleep satisfied with what I'm doing.
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When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
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I'm extremely interested in art, every form of art, but I'm interested in it when it's good and interested in it when it's interesting.
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
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I love as you come into Paris, you've got the Arch de Triomphe and all that crazy traffic. Then I love the drive from Paris down to Antibes and you veer off east in through the Alps and you come into the south of France on the mountain road as opposed to the freeway.
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It is quite possible that the truest and most eloquent art is a successful fusion of both the visible and visionary worlds, each enhancing and reinforcing the other.
