Edward Gorey Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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Well, one of my favorite ones to work on - besides just about any scene from 'Deadwood' - was my scene with Brad Pitt in 'Assassination of Jesse James'. That was just a fun day.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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I need to meet people to be able to write.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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I've had loss in my life, and I like to think my mother's energy lives on in some faintly Buddhist way. I do find some comfort there.
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Creativity is a mansion. If you're empty in one room, all you have to do is go out into the hallway and enter another room that's full.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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I do listen to Abba. And a lot of '80s and '90s pop music.
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We at Fidelity view ourselves just as much a financial information processing company as an investment management firm. That may not be too newsworthy.
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I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.
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Yoga has been something that's always there to take with me and practice throughout any journey. There's no place I've ever been where yoga hasn't fit itself in. I currently work on a commercial fishing boat in Alaska and I am still able to find time to lay my mat on the deck and practice what makes me the best me I can be, thanks to yoga.
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Nothing scares a straight man more than a woman in her full glory.
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I think it's really important to be outdoorsy.
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To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
