Masters Quotes
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You're not going to be able to look like anyone else, no matter how hard you try, unless you're a mimic, then you're not acting, you're just mimicking. You can't go on being John Wayne, that's John Wayne. So you're not going to steal from John Wayne. I'm not going to steal from John Wayne and you're not going to come back and say 'Didn't you get that from the circus?' You know. But he is one of those people who instructs me, whom I look up to - whom I think is one of the masters of his craft that I am so enamoured of.
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I am very much inspired by the great masters of entertainment: Bob Hope, George Burns, Jimmy Durante - who never thought about retiring. When people ask me if I plan to retire, I say, "Retire to what? I am doing what I love best right now!"
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A man is not necessarily a master because he happened to compose two or three centuries ago. Let us beware of the worship of mere antiquity.
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He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.
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A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.
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The masters have been done away with; the morality of the common man has triumphed.
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Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.
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The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Ramsey Campbell, Thomas Ligotti – while his imaginative reach is something uniquely his own.
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We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.
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The master of your body did not run off and leave you masterless.
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We nearly always make ourselves masters of those whom we know well, because he who is thoroughly understood is in some sense subject to those who understand him.
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To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
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Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
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No matter how many personal productivity techniques you master, there will always be more to do than you can ever accomplish in the time you have available to you, no matter how much it is.
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The sum of all technical knowledge cannot make a master contract player.
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In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.
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I have a master chief that always said, punch and run.
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Sam Walton was a master storyteller who used illustrative stories to reinforce his cultural standards.
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All the other stuff without love? Not worth a whole lot. Love starts with ourselves and needs to be approached like anything else we want to master-with a lot of diligent studying and practicing!
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The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
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The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.
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We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.
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Somehow, conductor as this superhuman conduit between the masters and the masterpieces and the immortals.
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I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the first truly American lexicography, was a kind of line in the sand. It claimed a very discrete, American form of the English language, explicitly to compare it to the English of our erstwhile colonial masters who had been operating under Dr. Johnson's dictionary rules for well over a century.
