Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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I have two older brothers. I am the baby. We're all very, very close. We're great communicators, so we get along really well.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Virtually all of Darfur's six million residents are Muslim, and, because of decades of intermarriage, almost everyone has dark skin and African features.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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Know your worth! People always act like they're doing more for you than you're doing for them.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
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Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.
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There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.
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A relationship can be deeply damaging without anyone leaving marks on you. So many people - especially young women - end up trying to maintain those emotionally abusive relationships because we don't think it's that bad and that we are really some of the lucky ones because we haven't experienced 'real' abuse.
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I never base a character on someone I know. You can get ideas from real life, but every character you write is some aspect of yourself.
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What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.
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All art forms employ some means through which images become real.
