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 wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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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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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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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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For a year after I left Cambridge, I had an agent, and I was working in a pub and doing waitering. But I could stay at home rent-free.
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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.
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Nobody tells you how to be famous.
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Not to be able to utter one’s thought without giving offence, is to lack culture.
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There is no more self-contradictory concept than that of idle thoughts. What gives rise to the perception of a whole world can hardly be called idle. Every thought we have either contributes to truth or to illusion.
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..the elimination of other things which are not essential will make for a stronger result.
