Ernest Becker Quotes
The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.
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I just want Tina Fey to be my best friend. And Lena Dunham. And Oprah, too.
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I feel very close to Maryann Plunkett and Jay O. Sanders.
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There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
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My philosophy is that when I go out of my room, I'm prepared to love everybody I meet, unless they're bad.
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To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.
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The government is so out of control. It is so bloated and infested with fraud and deceit and corruption and abuse of power.
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I've always felt that having a garden is like having a good and loyal friend.
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Religion isn't always pretty. Especially viewed from the outside, by an unbeliever.
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'DONALDSON: But on Friday, you were very pessimistic. You said, 'No good,' when someone asked you how things were going.' No, I'm saying even now, if I have to summarize the situation - in one word it's good, in two words, not good.
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Making a great television show is hard enough. To also tackle F. Scott - whoa.
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Would-be drug companies must either produce medicines that stand up to federal scrutiny, demonstrate that their data has value to other companies, or go out of business.
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Ball teams do not always run true to form in a short series. In a season's campaign, class will tell; the best team will invariably win, unless disaster overtakes it. In a short series, some freak situation, same unusual play, may prove to be the turning point.
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The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.
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I've always loved TV very much, and as a child I was so religious with it, but now it's more when it fits in.
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'Looking For Alaska' by John Green is a very great book. I feel like every teenage girl says John Green's 'Fault In Our Stars,' but 'Looking For Alaska' is better.
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Awareness is the key to everything. I think it's important to be aware of how you feel. How do you feel after you exercise? How do you feel after you eat something? I try to be mindful of the food I'm putting in my body, the products I use, and what I put in or on my body.
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You take the best ingredients - the best cocoa beans - and you process them in the best traditional way, and you have the best chocolate.
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There are a lot of subtle things that are harder to stamp out of a culture in terms of male entrepreneurs being mentored more than female entrepreneurs... male entrepreneurs getting several strikes against them before they're kind of let go, whereas female entrepreneurs, it's kind of one strike and you're out.
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The silence in our house now is born from the need for intense concentration, as we all carefully step around the truth we wish we didn't know, the person we can't help that Bo became, the future we're all afraid is collapsing around us, falling as silent and cold and crushing as snow.
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Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them.
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I try to make my music interesting to me first, then hopefully other people will find it interesting, too.
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The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.
