Georges Rouault Quotes
The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
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When I was in college, I studied business because I thought I wanted to be a director and producer.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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I'm a huge advocate for human rights and cultural rights. I stand up for minorities and will always continue to do so.
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'Moby-Dick' has a remarkable way of resonating with whatever is going on in the world at that particular moment.
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In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.
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Babies choose to lackadaisically notice the quirkiest of details - unlike us grown ups, who choose instead to focus on what we believe is most essential to us. As a result, babies have a greater expanded consciousness than us grown-ups!
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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What we wanted to do was tell a story that felt relatable to anyone who's been a teenager. We haven't all been a second-generation Pakistani-American girl with superpowers, but we've all been 16 and awkward.
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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
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I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
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I hate television, but that's me. It's like sucking your thumb. It's a wonderful thing for keeping the masses enslaved.
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On so many levels, acting in film and TV is so much the sum of its parts, and somewhere in there, there's an alchemical thing that makes something happen or not - that makes something connect or not. Now, of course you want to make work that people see, but the enjoyment I get out of acting is playing characters.
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Social media is simply a tool that facilitates actions.
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There are a lot of critics out there, a lot of people that you want to prove wrong. But that's what your hard work is for in the offseason, spending hours and hours in the gym.
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I was playing cricket first and my cricket coach was the one that introduced me to track and field.
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For every artist, experience is never complete until it has been reproduced in creative work.
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When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
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Getting your foot in the door with some publishing people can be important when you're starting out as a writer, but it's also not enough to get you where you need to be.
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I've gone to Detroit. I've been to Ferguson; I've been to Baltimore, because I want our party to be bigger, better and bolder, and I'm the only one that leads Hillary Clinton in five states that were won by President Obama. I'm a different kind of Republican.
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The conscience of an artist worthy of the name is like an incurable disease which causes him endless torment but occasionally fills him with silent joy.
