Edward Sorel Quotes
My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.

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I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
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I think confidence does come with time, and I've been really surprised by that, actually.
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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
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Only in spontaneity can we be who we truly are.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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I believe the people that buy my music believes in me.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.
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I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.
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O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
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I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor Huntsman are all terrific candidates. I think we got a chance to elect a real, executive leader.
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That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
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...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty.
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My one failing as an artist is that I depend on reference material to perhaps a greater extent than I should. Delacroix said that if you can draw a man falling out of a window and have the drawing finished before he hits the ground then you're a real artist. I wasn't that kind of artist.