Lincoln Kirstein Quotes
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The reason can give nothing at all Like the response to desire.
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I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.
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Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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I have a huge promotion: you've heard from me on 'Vantage Point' and also with 'Cyrano Fernandez' – that is a Venezuelan movie that I star in and co-produced, and it's based on the romance of Cyrano de Bergerac. And it's set in a Venezuelan slum. It's a free version of the French play.
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I always say that people should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion.
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At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty a nothing at all.
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Theater is where you go to find out something new that you don't know. It goes through somebody's brain and comes out in a comprehensible way that is beautiful, that's really interesting.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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I'm a work in progress.
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You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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Williams is one of the big names in F1 with a really strong pedigree, so it is an honour to be driving for them.
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I am happy because I am no longer an author.
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I had that flying wheel tattooed on my forehead and on my butt.
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When you work at 'The Daily Show,' you have to give 100 percent, or you're gone. The competitiveness and the minds that work in those offices are incredible.
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For one thing, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being nice. There is nothing uncool about it; there's nothing wrong with being kind.
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Those who want to divide the workers have resorted to the foulest methods.
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Omnia qua propter debent per inane quietumaeque ponderibus non aequis concita ferri.
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People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?
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I'm an R&B and pop singer as well as a jazzer.
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Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon.
