Eleonora Duse Quotes
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One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
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I wanted to be an animator originally. I went to art school; I went to art college and everything. But that screen was just calling me.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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I just think that the Victoria's Secret girl values herself by the way she looks. And that might be linked with being healthy, but that's all it is, and it sets a negative example to other people.
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My career? I never think of it as a 'career.' Art and music and all those things that I'm creating are just part of me.
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There are infinite modes of expression in the world of art, and to insist that only by one road can the artist attain his ends is to limit him.
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I was always interested in the arts as a child - drawing, painting, and piano - but acting became a favourite. I was a major theatre geek in high school - if I wasn't in the drama room at lunch rehearsing, I'd be in the art room finishing up some type of project.
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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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What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.
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Myself and David, we both love art. We have a lot of respect for Damien Hirst and Julian Schnabel, and we've met them both, and they're very interesting characters. I also have a lot of respect for the working women out there. As you know, it's not easy when you're looking after children and you have a career as well.
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Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.
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And when they encounter works of art which show that using new media can lead to new experiences and to new consciousness, and expand our senses, our perception, our intelligence, our sensibility, then they will become interested in this music.
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I love music videos, I really do. I think it's kind of sad that it's a dying art form.
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The motto of his Robinson Jeffers’s work is 'More! More!'-but as Tolstoy says, 'A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion'; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: 'A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.'
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Real art must always involve some witchcraft.
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Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art.
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I am still a victim of chess. It has all the beauty of art - and much more. It cannot be commercialized. Chess is much purer than art in its social position.
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My mom is an art teacher and my dad owns a women's shoe store, so they're not actors by any means. Well, I guess to sell women's shoes, you have to be an actor.
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I feel like I've been blessed with the ability to do what I do and I guess, I ultimately want to be remembered for being an out-and-out racer; just driving at the seat of my pants and doing it the right way and winning for the right reasons. The right values.
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The strange thing about the Olympics is that delivering on your potential is always quite difficult.
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It had always seemed to Louis that a fundamental desire to take postal courses was being sublimated by other people into sexual activity.
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I love being around kids; they're honest and refreshing, and I love teaching them new things.
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In the immediate postwar era, financial crises in advanced countries were rare events, and before 1970 did not happen at all. Since then they have occurred more often, and 2008 was the most damaging of them all to date. If we have moved back to a regime of regular financial crises - like the one we had from the 1870s to the 1930s - then our economic future will be very different from our recent past.
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Precepts, conventions - above all traditions - have no value in art.
