Claude Monet Quotes
No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I just have always felt that I think we know that it's an ensemble show, and it's very hard to pick a show to submit when you're nominated, because usually everyone has a very strong part in every episode.
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
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'Jurassic Park' has a lot of science in it - and a lot of it is wrong - but if it was all accurate, it would be a documentary.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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Art and works of art do not make an artist; sense and enthusiasm and instinct do.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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I would love to be a professional athlete. When I was living in Mexico as a teenager, I did seven years of gymnastics and went to the Junior Olympics. I was getting to the level of going to the international competitions, but I was only 14, and my parents were really worried because they did not want that to be my life.
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I love football, football is my life.
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You can stroke people with words.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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I'm rap's vigilante. I'm out for justice.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.
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Gossip is easy, politics is hard.
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My family is heavily involved in the Marines and close-combat training, and I was raised doing Japanese sword training, so I've always been of the mentality that you have to be able to defend yourself.
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The process is always the same. I get an inspiration for a new song, I put it down on paper immediately so I won't lose it. When I am ready to go to the studio with it, I play it a few times on the piano and edit, add, and type the lyrics and take it to the studio. Sometimes I don't have anything on paper.
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Scientists define these terms in tight phrases which convey a meaning only to those who already understand it.
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There is as much guidance in way that closes behind us as in way that opens up ahead of us. The opening may reveal our potentials while the closing may reveal our limits-two sides to the same coin, the coin called identity.
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The micro-compositions are the pieces themselves, but the macro-composition is the whole set of them and how it moves from track to track and how the titles relate to one another, for example. Always when I do records like this of a selection of instrumental pieces - the titles, to me, are very important.
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Publicly leading a church in prayer deserves thoughtful preparation.
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No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.
