Arthur Machen Quotes
It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
Quotes to Explore
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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I don't know how many kids I am going to have, but definitely I am one of those women who wants to have family and kids.
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I don't feel that electronic music has to stand on the back of urban artists or anyone else to be recognized. It's great music.
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I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.
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I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.
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I am smarter because I stayed in school, and I am a better football player.
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Dylan doesn't have to make Blonde On Blonde every time.
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I'm in awful shape. I'm trying to get in better shape. My girlfriend, she's in good shape. She gives me health tips sometimes, like, 'Hannibal, you're going to die.' Stuff like that.
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I am a child of the '70s, so I love classic rock - Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Van Morrison, and I also love Coldplay.
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I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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God bless each and everyone of you.
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One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense. Repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by something better, which is as free and original as if they had not been.
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The sculptor must learn to reproduce the surface, which means all that vibrates on the surface: spirit, soul, love, passion - life. ... Sculpture is thus the art of hollows and mounds, not of smoothness, or even polished planes.
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It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.
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I remember reading scripts when I started in the business, and Latino roles were either nonexistent or written as the maid or a drug dealer. We're no longer just that. I'll play any part that challenges me. What's important is that all races have choices.
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I've never had any desire to be good. I don't like goodness particularly.
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Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.
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You just have to learn how to fall down and get back up again. You just have to keep going.
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It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
