Clive Bell Quotes
The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
Quotes to Explore
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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Everyone fears the cut of the blade. It doesn't matter after that. I know the spirit survives as there is so much evidence of the survival of the personality in the afterlife.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I get homesick.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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I eat super clean and am always watching what I eat.
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As a gay person, my life has been marginalized.
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The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.
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No one's pro-police brutality.
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I wish I had not believed that my work would speak for itself; the working world requires a bit more than that.
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Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's easy to think we know exactly what happened.
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Open your refrigerator door, and you summon forth more light than the total amount enjoyed by most households in the 18th century. The world at night, for much of history, was a very dark place indeed.
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The world is R-rated, and no one's checking IDs
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The forms of art are inexhaustible; but all lead by the same road of aesthetic emotion to the same world of aesthetic ecstasy.
