Lawrence Ferlinghetti Quotes
The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
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I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that's cliche, I don't know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.
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What most people didn't realize in the Western countries is that here its not a question of having supporters, its a question of getting these votes to the polling stations.
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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People should be able to express their culture without getting into all that chauvinistic thing.
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
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I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.
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Many may look at me and see mostly what I have lost. I struggle to speak, my eyesight's not great, my right arm and leg are paralyzed, and I left a job I loved representing southern Arizona in Congress.
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People hate searching.
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Just about every therapist or counselor or social worker is practiced in dealing with people going through failing relationships, ending them, and confronting issues of custody and support.
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The mere drawing and painting world of the pattern designer and the applied artist must become a world that builds again.
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Soap operas are like boot camps for film actors, so I really learned a lot. It was a masterclass in working for camera. I made myself watch myself every day. I would sort of try and be objective about it and critique myself a little. There's a lot more skill set than people realize in soap operas. They shoot, like, 35 scenes a day.
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I think it's pretty normal that there are a lot of people out there who don't like us.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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People have died in jail that have been innocent.
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English, for me, is an acquired language. I started with English at the age of 10. At the time, it was my third language.
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I'll be excited when I get my heart broken properly for the first time. I'll be like, 'Thank God I've experienced something. Someone wanted to kiss me.' That's when it's going to be interesting: When you break up, they're taking a piece with them.
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The duty and the task of a writer are those of an interpreter.
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The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem.
