Ellen Langer Quotes
All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
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That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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Theo van Doesburg wanted to teach in the Bauhaus in 1922. I refused, however, to appoint him since I considered him to be too aggressive and too rigidly theoretical: he would have wrought havoc in the Bauhaus through his fanatic attitude, which ran counter to my own broader approach.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Each time I free a child, I feel it is something closer to God.
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I just lost interest in performing.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
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That's what makes writer's block so painful. You think the well has run dry, maybe somewhere in the heavens the tap has been turned off. That's beyond frightening.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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Anything worse than what I do, without knowing what, or why, I have never been able to conceive, and that doesn’t surprise me, for I never tried. For had I been able to conceive something worse than what I had I would have known no peace until I got it, if I know anything about myself.
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'I sometimes think,' said the Eternal, 'that the stars never shine more brightly than when reflected in the muddy waters of a wayside ditch.'
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Forget the infinities: Concentrate on detail.
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We now to peace and darknessAnd earth and thee restoreThy creature that thou madestAnd wilt cast forth no more.
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I'm flying all around the world, and it's hard to be settled.
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I don't care what size you are or how old you are - once you see the results brought to you by regular exercise, you'll wonder how you survived without it.
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Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.
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He has that confidence, that swagger with him. He doesn't feel like a little young guy out of place anymore. He feels welcome. He knows that, that's his spot and he's a part of this franchise.
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The time for Mugabe to grandstand ... as the grandmaster of anti-imperialism in Africa is now past. The game is up.
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All it takes to become an Artist is to start doing Art. By living a life full of Art, we may achieve an Artful life.
