Ali Smith Quotes
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
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Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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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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When I'm not working, I'm on the road with my band. Or I'm performing in poetry houses doing spoken work. So I've got another passion and another outlet that allows me to be creatively fulfilled and not sitting at home pulling my hair out waiting for the right role to come along.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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Today's films are so technological that an actor becomes starved for roles that deal with human relationships.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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Small aim is a crime.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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I'm not a good Samaritan, I'm a businessman... The goal is to read and react. If we sign an artist that has potential for a shelf life way out in the distance, then we'll stay. But if not, then we won't.
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The United States is a strong and ardent ally of Israel. The fact of the matter is that friends can disagree. I think what's important is that world leaders are able to sit down with one another, have frank conversations and move forward.
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Let's be clear about what Common Core is. It spells out what students should know at the end of each grade. The goal is to ensure that our students are sound in math and literacy and that our schools have some basic consistency nationwide. But the standards do not dictate a national curriculum, and teachers are not told how or what to teach.
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
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Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
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I like sleeping a lot.
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I'm at the point age-wise where I've decided it's time to pass the baton to people who have several terms in front of them and have the energy and the excitement and the engagement that is necessary to carry it on.
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My mother was born in Baltimore, and before her marriage, she was an artist and teacher of art.
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The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible.
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Whether it's horses or whatever it is you do, it doesn't become an art until your soul goes into what you do.
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I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
