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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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It is the job of artists to open doors and invite in prophesies, the unknown, the unfamiliar; it’s where their work comes from, although its arrival signals the beginning of the long disciplined process of making it their own. Scientists too, as J. Robert Oppenheimer once remarked, ‘live always at the ‘edge of mystery’—the boundary of the unknown.’ But they transform the unknown into the known, haul it in like fishermen; artists get you out into that dark sea.
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I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.
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I'm not a competitive person, and I think women like me because they don't think I'm competitive, just nice.
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The details are not the details. They make the design.
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My father was a logger. He cut timber and hauled it out of the woods and had a sawmill. They sawed it into lumber. And, you know, the mines needed things they call timbers and collars and so forth, and they used collars on the railroad track that they put the rails on. And he - that was his occupation, just a sawmill man and a logger.
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Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.
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To happy folkAll heaviest words no more of meaning bearThan far-off bells saddening the Summer air.
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To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
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London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.
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You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.
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From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
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Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.
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. . . to walk alone in London is the greatest rest.
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Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.
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I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.
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I was excited to hear others talking of God. Most people in show business have some strong spirituality but don't talk about it openly.
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To communicate is our chief business; society and friendship our chief delights; and reading, not to acquire knowledge, not to earn a living, but to extend our intercourse beyond our own time and province.
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To create one's world in any of the arts takes courage.
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There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself.
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You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.
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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it.
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I think that sometimes we put undue pressure on stories featuring people of color, and I hope we get to a point where it's not such a rarity to see a person of color be the hero of a story, so that it can just be a story and not have to carry so much weight.
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A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.
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As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called 'Fritz' at school. When I married my wife and went to live in Vienna, I was teased for being a Brit.
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I know there are a lot of tough stories out there about Sinatra, but he was so sweet to Bobby and me. He even had us replace him one night in the main room. He didn't get Sammy or Dean; he said, 'I want the kids to do it.' Man, what an honor.
