Anthony Trollope Quotes
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Whatever work you do, you think are you doing this for the good of the nation? That's the basic training. The other basic training is discipline. Your life should be disciplined. The other thing they say is what work you get, do it well.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.
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The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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We're not that much smarter than we used to be, even though we have much more information - and that means the real skill now is learning how to pick out the useful information from all this noise.
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Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
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In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics, art must be restored to the center of public education.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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They're not poodles, they're art.
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Any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
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Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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The art of DJing is sharing music with one another... The technology's definitely taking it into a new direction to where it's really becoming performance-based.
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I don't understand how any good art could fail to be political.
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My job is art curator, not artist. All I have ever wanted to do is immerse myself in art, to enjoy it, to learn about it, to write about it, to talk to others about it.
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In its essence, any art that relies on words makes use of their ability to eat away - of their corrosive function - just as etching depends on the corrosive power of nitric acid.
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Art is man’s metaphysical mirror; what a rational man seeks to see in that mirror is a salute; what an irrational man seeks to see is a justification – even if only a justification of his depravity, as a last convulsion of his betrayed self-esteem.
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I was an investor doing well and decided to be an entrepreneur.
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If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.
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There is no royal road to learning; no short cut to the acquirement of any art.
