Barbara Hepworth Quotes
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
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In general, I find that for videos the acting is more realistic.
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So basically, I think music at its best can be everything. It can be totally stupid and very intellectual and emotional at the same time. I don't think all those things shut each other out.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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I have what is probably the largest big bike collection in the city: a Fat Boy, a sportser Harley Davidson and two Yamahas. All these are 1200cc-plus bikes. Riding these bikes is something I still do and some trekking as well.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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It's totally viable to envisage a million Jews living in Judea and Samaria.
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We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and not choice, has driven us, is oppressive to the heart.
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I was in Kenya when I read 'Catch-22,' and I associate this book that has nothing to do with Kenya - whenever I think of 'Catch-22,' I think of Nairobi.
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I can relate to pushing yourself because you want to help and move culture toward justice.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.
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Palestinian people are in love with life.
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I'm a little weird that way. I don't really know how to express my happiness.
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She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry.
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The experience taught me that the essence of a Cambridge education centers on two questions: What does it mean? How do you know?
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People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.
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Oh of course it pleased me, it pleased me greatly. But I also felt as if my body had the consistency of egg shell, and a slight pressure on my arm, on my forehead, on my stomach would be enough to break it and dig out all my secrets, in particular those which were secrets even to me.
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I am like a freight train. Working on the details, twisting them and playing with them over the years, but always staying on the same track.
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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
