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Robert Blake Quotes

I was on the set when I was five years old with Spencer Tracy. A lot of what I learned growing up in terms of artistry is very clean, very tidy, very organized.

Robert Blake

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: September 18, 1933

Topics

Growing Up Growing Clean Old Tidy

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

John Banville

Learning Hope Death Doing You Duty

To me, the most shocking thing about grit is how little we know, how little science knows, about building it. Every day, parents and teachers ask me, 'How do I build grit in kids? What do I do to teach kids a solid work ethic? How do I keep them motivated for the long run?' The honest answer is, I don't know.

Angela Duckworth

Work Science Day Parents Me Grit

I truly feel that being a woman, and particularly a mother, has had a large impact on my campaign.

Ann Callis

Mother Woman Impact Feel Being Had

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Johnny Carson

Marriage Live Men Die More Single

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

Anais Nin

Religion Grow Political Become Dogma

Photography has become so fundamental to the way we see that 'photography' and 'seeing' are becoming more and more synonymous. The ubiquity of photography is, perhaps ironically, a challenge to curators, practitioners, and critics.

Trevor Paglen

Challenge Photography Seeing Become

Admittedly, scientific authority is not distributed evenly throughout the body of scientists; some distinguished members of the profession predominate over others of a more junior standing.

Michael Polanyi

Body Authority Others More Over

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.

Jean Baudrillard

Driving Everything Amnesia Form

When art has changed, it's because the world was changing.

Corita Kent

Art World Because Changing Changed

There are performers who have built their whole career doing magic on TV and can't really perform live at all - don't really have jobs and skills.

Penn Jillette

Live Doing Magic Career Skills Who