Auguste Renoir Quotes
With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
Quotes to Explore
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Religion provides us with a puritanical dream, which can never be realized because it goes against human nature.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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The United States may be a religious nation. But it is also a nation with a strong commitment to separation of church and state.
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During the late '20s my father left us. My mother was in a complete hole with no money, and we were evicted.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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I've always been a rough kid.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Politics is not an exact science.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.
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I am all in favor of growing the American economy and engaging in trade with the world, but not at the expense of American workers. The North American Free Trade Agreement is a perfect example of this. Ask the textile workers of North Carolina how NAFTA worked out for them - if you can find any.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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In fact I am such a nonentity by the standards of our culture that People magazine not only will never feature a piece about me but might also reject my attempts to subscribe to their publication on the grounds that the black-hole gravity of my noncelebrity is powerful enough to suck their entire enterprise into oblivion.
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I think a lot of officers go into that line of work because they have a calling for it. But at some point, they find themselves in the middle of their lives having seen some of the darkest things that are just unimaginable to the rest of us.
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Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind of car to drive. It simply raises the price of gasoline and lets people adjust their behavior accordingly.
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I never experiment with anything in my books. Experimentation means you don't know what you're doing.
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I'm not looking for career attention, for more success, more money. I'm just singing songs I chose because I love them.
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With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!
