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art drama blood
The cinema is little more than a fad. It's canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage. Charlie Chaplin
art silence world
Sound has spoiled the most ancient of the world's arts, the art of pantomime, and has canceled out the great beauty that is silence.
art money truth
I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.
art book facts
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
art reality acting
Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities. Charles de Gaulle
art teaching use
You don't have to be Michelangelo to teach basic art, just as you don't have to be Shakespeare to be able to teach the correct use of language. Charles de Lint
art people tongue
It reminded me of that tongue-in-cheek quick history of art I'd overheard...Used to be people couldn't draw very well, then they could, and now they can't again.
art ideas air
From the first time he’d met her, he’d sensed an air of contradiction about her. She was very much a woman, but still retained a waiflike quality. She could be brash, and at times deliberately suggestive, yet she was painfully shy. She was incredibly easy to get along with, yet she had few friends. She was a talented artist in her own right, but so self-conscious about her work that she rarely completed a piece and preferred to work with other people’s art and ideas...
art eye thinking
People want to know those details. They think it gives them greater insight into a piece of art, but when they approach a painting in such a manner, they are belittling both the artist’s work and their own ability to experience it. Each painting I do says everything I want to say on its subject and in terms of that painting, and not all the trivia in the world concerning my private life will give the viewer more insight into it than what hangs there before their eyes. Frankly, as far as I’m concerned, even titling a work is an unnecessary concession.
blowing-up
Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out. Charles Dickens
blow wind sky
The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!
blow wrecks lasts
The last trumpet ever to be sounded shall blow even algebra to wreck.
blow light candle
If God lights the candle, none can blow it out. Charles Spurgeon
blow sharks hands
I've sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I've helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup. Alan Alda
blow people focus
I don't hide my emotions from people. I am not a focus-group tested, blow- dried candidate or governor. Chris Christie
blow coach knew shoot surviving tells
We knew they weren't going to shoot 100 percent. Coach always tells us about surviving their first blow and we did that. Jordan Roth
blown knew original
We knew they had blown the original call,
blow decision feelings
Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence. David Allen
noses red cry
I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes. Edith Wharton
noses odd circumstances
He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd in the circumstances. Diana Gabaldon
noses way fans
I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose. Barry Williams
noses nervous sometimes
I love my nose! I was so nervous when I got pregnant that I was going to get that weird nose spread that you sometimes see pregnant ladies get. Busy Philipps
noses purpose biology
The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface. Brian Eno
noses notice pressed store useful writers
Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything. We mull and interpret. We store away clues, details that may be useful to us later. Dani Shapiro
noses fame gas
Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do. Bert Blyleven
noses bakeries bread
Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread. Carrie Fisher
noses teeth break
You could knock my teeth out and break my nose, and there'd be something funny about it to me. Chevy Chase