Edward Hopper Quotes
There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
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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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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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But I'm not objective when I'm acting.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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I'm not worried at all about going to 160 lb.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.
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Misanthropy is born, I think, out of an almost oppressive sense of loneliness, a conviction that there's no one on earth who understands you. I don't think misanthropes hate people: They hate that people hate them.
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
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The voice of the intelligence is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
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We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.
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I manage to scrape together a private life, despite the press.
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Limit to courage? There is no limit to courage.
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Positive mental attitude is a practice, you gotta practice. I practice being still.
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Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering-pot and pruning-knife.
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There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
