Charles Dudley Warner Quotes
One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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One of the biggest problems with the modern feminist movement is its failure to bring men along with us.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I just started making Bloody Marys. I always thought they looked gross, then I tasted one. There's an art to it, from the Tabasco to the Worcestershire.
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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Some artists get so comfortable now after even one or two albums and think, 'I'm the biggest artist in the world,' but it's like, yeah, you are for now, but you've gotta work so that you're remembered further, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
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Rap is the only interesting music left - it's the only genre that's still pushing itself, and experimenting in a way that I find exciting.
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When I was growing up, my dad and I would go hunting and camping every weekend. Like everyone in my family, he is an amazing cook, and I've tried to learn a lot from all of them.
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The Russians are not as addicted to coffee as the Americans. We should work on that!
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I remember dawn coming up over the Strait of Malacca; ragamuffin kids on the dock in Sumatra laughing as they pelted us with bananas; collecting dead flying fish off the deck and bringing them to our sweet, fat, toothless Danish cook to fry up for breakfast.
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It means a lot to be back in New York. Particularly since one of the last senior event scheduled in the States was supposed to be here in New York. We were supposed to play in Central Park right after 9-11 and when 9-11 happened obviously things changed.
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My commitment to the players was to try to keep this whole group together and hopefully improve and step up again next year.
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I have faith in God and not that we have evolved from a rock, not from worshiping the environment or endangered bugs.
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I think it was Roger Fry who first coined what he took to be a final definition of a work of art, whether it was a painting, building, poem or Hepplewhite chair. He said that the best works of art are finished products that preserve 'a valuable state of mind'.
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One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, but needs some practice to be a good one.
