Sarah Jones Quotes

Whether you're talking about Shakespeare or, you know, if you look at Greek tragedies. I mean, every playwright, every songwriter, every artist who's ever sat down and been moved to create something, has been living in a context. A political moment that's most often reflected in their work. Even if you're, you know, kind of a nature poet.

Sarah Jones

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Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure you don't go to the ocean with a teaspoon. At least take a bucket so the kids won't laugh at you.

Jim Rohn

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The thirst for vengeance was the beautiful nature which Homer imitated.

Johann Georg Hamann

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I'm very much into the costuming of any character that I portray and it's one of the great things about making movies is it's a collaborative art form so you get all these artists who are looking specifically about for this instance your character's costume and what that might tell about your character.

Jeff Bridges

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Songs really are like a form of time travel because they really have moved forward in a bubble. Everyone who's connected with it, the studio's gone, the musicians are gone, and the only thing that's left is this recording which was only about a three-minute period maybe 70 years ago.

Tom Waits

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Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

Michelangelo

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Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

Lou Reed

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Actors are sellers, and I figured out a long time ago that if you wanted to work a lot, you had to be on the buying side.

Jason Bateman

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The award is important in order to bring people to the movie theater. That's the only principle meaning of any award.

Javier Bardem

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The federal government does not have the authority to tell landowners and ranchers and farmers that they can't farm and ranch their land because someday an endangered species might live there.

Josh Hawley

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The sun too penetrates into privies, but is not polluted by them.

Diogenes

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I suppose I'm always looking for a sort of acuity of perception either in my characters or about my characters.

Deborah Eisenberg

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I think of it as the lasagna approach to writing because I'm always adding layers. I'll sometimes do it layer by layer, with dialogue, attribution, action, objects in the scene, setting... It can be sometimes that delineated.

Chelsea Cain

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