Works Quotes
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Critics, at least generally, want to regard works of fiction as independent entities, whose virtues and failures must be reckoned apart from the circumstances of their creation, and even apart from the intentions of their creator.
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Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.
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Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately.
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Coming up with a good idea, with an insight into the way the world works that is really new and that you really believe in, is a deeply satisfying experience.
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The bourgeois intellectual neither fights nor works.
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'Write what you know' works, but it's limiting. Write what fascinates you. Write what you can't stop thinking about.
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Real beauty in the arts is eternal and would be accepted at all periods; but it wears the dress of its century: something of that dress clings to it, and woe to the works which appear in periods when the general taste is corrupted.
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If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?
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It's wonderful walking out of this building to know what we're telling people actually works.
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This has been in the works for quite some time.
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All works of art should begin... at the end.
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While you're learning guitar, figure out the drums, too. Not only does it help you have great timing, but it helps you understand how a band works.
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I think I want to stick to jewelry. Perfumes are for the bigger media stars, and I think that works well for them. I don't think you have to be a big star to have a jewelry line; if something's pretty, I think people will want to buy it.
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After you do a joke a few times, you have material that you know works. Although sometimes I have a joke that has worked a bunch of times and then one night it'll flop. And that's when I really take a hard look at myself and say: 'Well, that crowd is obviously wrong. That crowd has absolutely no idea what it's talking about.
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You're sitting with some guys, and you're playing and you go, "Ooh, yeah!" That feeling is worth more than anything. There's a certain moment when you realize that you've actually just left the planet for a bit and that nobody can touch you. You're elevated because you're with a bunch of guys that want to do the same thing as you. And when it works, baby, you've got wings. You know you've been somewhere most people will never get; you've been to a special place.
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Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.
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My work is always based on reality. I'm not an artist that creates works of fiction. I'm not an artist who is in my studio inventing things out of my imagination - everything is based on reality, on real facts.
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Whatever good works ye send on before death... ye shall find with God.
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The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.
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Faith without works is dead.
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Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it.
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Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.
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The main thing to understand is that we are imprisoned in some kind of work of art.
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I can never think about, 'Is this going to sell? Is this going to work on radio?' I just have to get in the zone where I'm like, 'Do I love this, or do I not love this?' Essentially it all comes down to that.
