El Greco Quotes
Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
Quotes to Explore
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I have never worn dresses by grands couturiers.
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If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
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People assuming that because I'm a great athlete, I can dance. But no. My rhythm is off a little bit.
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None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The record does not show that Adam and Eve were ever married.
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So much of western self-perception and intellectual worldview has been shaped by the moral rhetoric of the Cold War, the discourse in which communism featured as a clear enemy, determined to rule the world.
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All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
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You cannot put 50 years of the Marvel universe into a movie. It's impossible.
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Accept who you are and try and make the best of that.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.
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After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.
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One who walks from fire to fire dies from the cold.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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I think I'm a pretty average person, and I respond to positive things, so I write for myself.
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The love in me salutes the love in you.
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When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you.
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I was fortunate to work with actors who loved music too. Just seeing what it would do to their manner and their faces was great and it helped give the story a little more soul.
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As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.
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Artists create out of a sense of desolation. The spirit of creation is a excruciating, intricate exploration from within the soul.
