Elliot W. Eisner Quotes
The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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The first single I released, 'Anything Goes,' is probably one of the best-written songs I've heard in a long time. It takes somebody knowing who you are. Sometimes writers know who an artist is and what they want to say and how they sing. I will never be opposed to cutting a song if somebody nails my life and what I'm going through.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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When you're 21, you think, 'Oh God, when I'm 36, oh God, that's nearly 40 and I'll look really old and wrinkly by then.' And actually, I quite like the way I look.
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Some of the best ideas that we've invested in have made no sense to conventional sources.
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Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?
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For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.
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The U.S. is the last country that should see itself as an ally of the apartheid system.
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
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When I draw something, the brain and the hands work together.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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Germany, Italy and France appear to possess less dynamism than do the U.S. and the others.
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If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
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It has been hard for me in a sense because from an industry point of view – I don't care if I'm from the 'X Factor;' I embrace the fact that I'm from the 'X Factor,' but other people don't embrace that.
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I consider writing practice a true Zen practice because it all comes back at you. You can't fool anyone because it's on the page.
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I'm pretty straightforward as a performer, but I do have a bit of a diva in me.
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I pray for you, that all your misgivings will be melted to thanksgivings. Remember that the shadow a thing casts often far exceeds the size of the thing itself (especially if the light be low on the horizon) and though some future fear may strut brave darkness as you approach, the thing itself will be but a speck when seen from beyond. Oh that He would restore us often with that 'aspect from beyond,' to see a thing as He sees it, to remember that He dealeth with us as with sons.
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You can't tell how heavy somebody else's load is just from looking. The Lord doesn't give us more than we can carry
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'A mother must put on her oxygen mask first, in order to be able to help her children' - I see this instruction on airplanes as an appropriate metaphor for feminist mothering. Mothers, empowered, are able to better care for and protect their children.
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When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.
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NASA's been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve, and it's sad that we are turning the program in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation it provides to young people.
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The arts teach students that small differences can have large effects. The arts traffic in subtleties.
