eL Seed Quotes
Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.
Quotes to Explore
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My mind's never gone very far away from what I wanted to accomplish.
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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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I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.
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I didn't choose acting. The universe did.
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Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
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Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
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I probably enjoy campaigning more than most other people in public office because I like people and I enjoy going out there and telling people what I've done.
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You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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A peace talk is always difficult, always complicated.
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Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation.
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On his bold visage middle ageHad slightly pressed its signet sage,Yet had not quenched the open truthAnd fiery vehemence of youth;Forward and frolic glee was there,The will to do, the soul to dare,The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,Of hasty love or headlong ire.
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Q: If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here? A: Why do men go to zoos?
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Except for those who think in terms of pious platitudes or dogma or narrow prejudice (and those thoughts we aren’t interested in), people don’t speak their beliefs easily, or publicly.
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Make sure that your religion is a matter between you and God only.
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I think, going into a room for an audition, the best thing you can do is represent who you are specifically as an individual and what you can bring to a creative process in a room - as opposed to being worried about 'where you fit' - because that's really their job to decide where you fit. Your job is to just present the best 'you' you can.
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The adoration of human nature by the Greeks appeared in Greek plastic art and was the cause of its excellence.
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If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.
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We praise or blame as one or the other affords more opportunity for exhibiting our power of judgement.
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In the end nobody knows how it's done - how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.
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Oooh, fashion, we are the goon squad and were coming to town, beep beep.
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I like to sit and talk to someone, and if they want to write about it, OK. But when it's a chore, I have a choice. There's a choice for all of us, including me.
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Mark Twain was an artist working at the highest level. He wrote a book, his masterpiece, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, that put America on the world stage for literature. It's almost as if, if you start reading that book as a racist, you cannot finish it and still be a racist.
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Art brings people back to their sensibility as human beings. This is the purpose of art: To bring people together and bring back the humanity as well.
