I'm just glad that I'm the musical equivalent of a character actress, because blues singers can keep singing and having an audience… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
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Art is the process of evoking pity and terror, which is not abstract at all but very human. What the self-styled modern… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Indiana was really, I suppose, a Democratic State. It has always been put down in the book as a state that might… — Chester A. Arthur Copy Share Image
Magneto has a whole lot of complexity to him. Emotionally, he's coming from a very damaged place. I like the ambivalence of… — Michael Fassbender Copy Share Image
Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
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My audience loves seeing me pump large amounts of money into action and sets. And it works. I'm not saying that films… — Rohit Shetty Copy Share Image
Painting, by its nature, cannot provide an object of simultaneous collective reception... as film is able to do today... And while efforts… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
To do a portrait today, I decide how close I can get to my subject. First, of course, mentally or intellectually, then… — Victor Skrebneski Copy Share Image
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I like confounding expectations. I can expand what it is I am able to do, and hopefully get to do more weird,… — Patton Oswalt Copy Share Image
We're starting with our own carbon footprint. Not nothing. But much of what we're doing is already, or soon will be, little… — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
I do all my work by storyboard, so as I draw the storyboard, the world gets more and more complex, and as… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
In any show, not everybody is completely with us on all the topics we talk about. We talk about Hindutva, and we… — Varun Grover Copy Share Image
“Few things in cultural programming in the mass media are quite as disturbing as watching Charlie Rose leaning forward, craning out over… — Curtis White Copy Share Image
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I like to service the full audience of America, so I try to do things that are just real artistic, like when… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
A filmmaker chooses an actress keeping the best interest of the film in mind. If he doesn't cast you, it doesn't mean… — Rani Mukerji Copy Share Image
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My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
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Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately… — David Lange Copy Share Image
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Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
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