Leonard Baskin Quotes
Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Our society is divided by the culture wars into the Left and Right, and the United Methodist Church has always stood historically in the center and has been willing to listen to and to bring together those things that often are found in opposite camps.
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I've earned all these years on my face. I don't want to be a liar if in five or 10 years I do get some Botox, but needles in the face scare me, so I don't really know if I am ever going to do that.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Futurists don't consider overpopulation one of the issues of the future. They consider it the issue of the future.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.
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When I was in Van Halen I was hitting notes that were out of my range. I never went for those registers before until Eddie pulled it out of me.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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Once you do away with the idea of people as fixed, static entities, then you see that people can change, and there is hope.
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The only bridge I've ever burned along this legacy I dance is the one that linked the cities of prosperity and chance.
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Of our desires some are natural and necessary, others are natural but not necessary; and others are neither natural nor necessary, but are due to groundless opinion. (29)
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I consider myself a little weak.
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Works of art produced in the contemporary world are a further expression of that. But I don't think there is an active, ongoing nihilist self-consciousness in the artist.
