Florence Scovel Shinn Quotes
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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I have been to Canada several times. It was autumn when I visited Vancouver, and I will always remember the colour of the trees in British Columbia were stunning.
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The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
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What in heaven's name is strange about a grandmother dancing nude? I'll bet lots of grandmothers do it.
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Remember that we are all human beings trying to do what we love to do.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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I commanded an Army unit, and I placed the highest priority on a commander's authority to lead, manage, and discipline the men and women under his or her command within the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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I don't think I made many sacrifices myself, but my parents have.
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People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
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My goal is to keep making films and grow as a film maker; that's always my goal.
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Portland hardly got to have an identity before that identity became a joke - I live in a joke. Seattle at least got to wear out its identity before it became a joke.
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A Rechabite poor Will must live,And drink of Adam's ale.
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You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.
