George L. Carlson Quotes
Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.
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Fulfilling your mission is one thing; vision is another, and having a commitment to something leads you to do better work.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March.
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Well, Warren Harding, I have got you the presidency. What are you going to do with it?
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.
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I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.
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Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.
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Every time I think that I am getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
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Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.
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It's unrealistic not to be able to indulge.
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Democratic strategists and operatives should not design a strategy based off today's conditions. They should be setting a strategy for where the trajectory of polling is headed.
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Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old.
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Cholera is even more severe among populations who are immunologically naive.
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I mean, we're going to probably debate the Iraq war for at least as long as I'm alive.
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'Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls.
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I have anxiety.
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I never had had a large group of friends, so I often felt a little out of place and like I was in a different mindset from everyone else around me because I was so focused on my acting career.
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The worst thing in this business is to be thought of as a no-talent.
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To be sure, the ancient belief that the dream reveals the future is not entirely devoid of truth. By representing to us a wish as fulfilled the dream certainly leads us into the future; but this future, taken by the dreamer as present, has been formed into the likeness of that past by the indestructible wish.
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The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion - life. ... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.
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We always take credit for the good and attribute the bad to fortune.
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Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.
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Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
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Working from photos makes you a little more analytical, a little more cerebral, because you're less connected to the intensity of life.
