T. S. Eliot Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
Hans Urs von Balthasar -
There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.
Adam Lambert -
I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
Camryn Manheim -
When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
Naomi Campbell -
I said to Ruth Rendell, 'When you've written as many books as you have, it's easier.' She said, 'No dear, it gets harder'.
Val McDermid -
When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.
Washed Out
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I am convinced that 100 years from now, people will talk about Elliott Carter as one of the most important figures in the second half of 20th-century music.
Daniel Barenboim -
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso -
Our original name was Wild Country, but when we first went to The Bowery, they had the name of all 50 states around the edge of the club, so we went to the sign that said 'Alabama' and stuck our band name underneath it.
Randy Owen -
I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
Personally, I have nothing against work, particularly when performed, quietly and unobtrusively, by someone else. I just don't happen to think it's an appropriate subject for an 'ethic.'
Barbara Ehrenreich -
John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.
Kaley Cuoco
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There's an inherent idea that if a Black executive producer and a Black director are going to do a movie based on a Black writer's book that everybody is going to be Black.
Gabrielle Union -
Frankly, too many women treat their husbands as accessories instead of priorities.
Laura Schlessinger -
Cheerleader roles are really not my thing. I want things that are weird or not typical.
Maika Monroe -
I feel very friendly towards your country, but make no mistake I will always be an Indian first.
Zubin Mehta -
The artist is a receptacle for emotions derived from anywhere: from the sky, from the earth, from a piece of paper, from a passing figure, from a spider’s web. This is a spider's web. This is why one must not make a distinction between things. For them there are no aristocratic quarterings. One must take things where one finds them.
Pablo Picasso -
Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision.
Ambrose Bierce
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I am attracted only to music which I consider to be better than it can be performed. Therefore I feel (rightly or wrongly) that unless a piece of music presents a problem to me, a never-ending problem, it doesn't interest me too much.
Artur Schnabel -
I just enjoy being around fans, man.
Jake Roberts -
The more people, as you know, are able to be on whatever spectrum of femininity and masculinity they are on at that moment, that opens the door for women to not have to be the opposite of what the supposed traditional male is.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill -
I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.
Kevin Bacon -
I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.
Jessica Simpson -
Much to cast down, much to build, much to restore.
T. S. Eliot