Edwin Forrest Quotes
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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Unemployment is 'involuntary' when the price is above its market clearing level. Workers are unemployed because jobs are not available at the prevailing wages, period. The only recourse is to either expand the number of jobs or somehow lower the wage.
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Australia, to the rest of the world, is just far away, and Australia in the Thirties was the faraway of the faraway.
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I can't even picture being without rock 'n'roll.
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Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?
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I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.
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Who is the loving person? The loving person is the person who loves him or herself. I say this so often, and people say, 'Oh yes, you're so right,' but they don't do it! You will never be able to love anyone else until you love yourself. Even With your Fat Thighs!
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I'd consider myself a flailing comedy writer.
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I'm a hard worker and love my work. I have felt pulled toward work. And it's a pull I have ferociously had to counter to make room for my family.
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I had to learn to accept myself despite the fact that I was seriously underweight. I had to try and feel sexy.
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Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.
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If you can serve everyone who visits you, you must be doing well in business.
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It's hard to think of another body of work that is more universally beloved - I don't think I've ever met someone who has encountered 'Calvin and Hobbes' without falling for them.
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Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . . If you wish to attain oneness with the Tao, don't get caught up in spiritual superficialities.
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Art is born of humiliation.
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We his art-friend & painter Morris Louis and Noland himself were interested in Pollock but could gain no lead from him. He was too personal. But Frankenthaler showed us a way – a way to think about and use, color..
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Industry executives sacrificed art for what sells and mega-stars now saturate the market with the same tired lyrics.
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A passion for the dramatic art is inherent in the nature of man.
