Andre Gide Quotes
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
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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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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I also hear your president say that war is the means of last resort and I think he means that. I met him last autumn and he assured me that they wanted to come through and disarm Iraq by peaceful means, and that's what we are trying to do as hard as we can.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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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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No book I publish will be perfect, but I need to feel I've taken it as far as I can.
Curtis Sittenfeld -
I was embarrassed by it and racked by middle-class guilt. But when you're on stage, if you're trying to be something you're not, it becomes so much harder. It's better to be honest and take every vulnerability and flaw you have, and mock them and deal with them.
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Honestly, I'm blessed with good genes and a good sense of discipline - I eat whatever I want, but I eat very controlled portions and stop when I'm full.
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God bless McNally, it's got some fantastic stuff in it, but it's no easy task to make a movie out of.
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Art school had taught me it was far better to be a flamboyant failure than any kind of benign success.
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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
