Alexander Calder Quotes
..the elimination of other things which are not essential will make for a stronger result.
Quotes to Explore
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The sun never sets on my gallery.
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I'm not coming back to play.
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I think it is impossible to explain faith. It is like trying to explain air, which one cannot do by dividing it into its component parts and labeling them scientifically. It must be breathed to be understood.
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I love everything that's beautiful. A lot of things.
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In my theater work, I've had much more three-dimensional, broader-stroke characters.
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Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commission critics, some of whom were screaming the word 'conspiracy' before the fatal bullet had even come to rest, came to remind me, as H. L. Mencken said in a different context, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights.
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No one seems to wash in Middle-earth.
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I've always prided myself on being myself and trying to stick true to who I am and how I was raised.
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You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.
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The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
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Don't swap horses in crossing a stream.
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When you're devoted to a greater freedom in the world, you're willing to compromise something you love.
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I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.
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My biggest luck was the Terry McMillan era, because what happened after the phenomenon of 'Waiting to Exhale' is that publishing woke up. They said, 'Wow. Black people do read.'
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I've got heaps of dreams.
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
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What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
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In middle school, I really didn't have music, but in high school, I remember taking a lot of choir and drama.
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I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
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I feel like, growing up, I haven't had a lot of room for error - I don't have room to make mistakes. You need to make mistakes to grow and learn, but I'm just a little different because the world is watching me, every single thing I do.
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Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it's a work of genius. It's very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don't expect in a silly-looking comic strip.
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If you disagree with the way a colleague did something, call him up, invite him out for a coffee, talk about it. But don't do it publicly.
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..the elimination of other things which are not essential will make for a stronger result.
