Alma Gluck Quotes
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
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All a writer wants is to be read, and people are so flattering and lovely. I mean, there are witches out there as well. But most are so kind.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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I'm really, really interested in the job of acting. I can really care less about being famous. I'm more about the work, and 'The Big C' was amazing, so I wanted to be a part of it.
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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I've always dreamed of having an album. The problem is that it's just very difficult to make an album nowadays because through technology, music shifts so fast, especially electronic music. Once you make five songs, the first one you did is already old and you wished you would have put it out right away. So that's kind of the difficult part.
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Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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I decided in my late teens that I wanted to be an actor, and my dad and I agreed that films were better. I work alongside my dad, you see. I've thought that films were better since I was a kid.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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The thinking man must … oppose all cruel customs no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. True manhood is too precious a spiritual good for us to surrender any part of it to thoughtlessness.
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Billions of photos are shot every year, and about the toughest thing a photographer can do is invent an original, deeply personal, instantly recognizable visual style. In the early nineties, Wolfgang Tillmans did just that, transforming himself into a new kind of artist-photographer of modern life.
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In real life, people are constantly saying one thing and doing another, but if you write your characters that way, the story becomes too hard to follow.
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I've had small depressions, days when I've woken up and felt sad, especially when I'm so far away from home. I've got my religion and that is my therapy, although I think it would be good for me to have someone I can talk to. But I have friends. I haven't got a therapist but maybe I should.
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The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
