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Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the ideas… — Peter Greenaway
Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to… — Chiaki Kuriyama
Their task [creative artists], therefore, is to communicate directly from one inward world to another, in such a way that an actual shock of experience… — Joseph Campbell
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the… — Thomas Carlyle
That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part. — Anne Lamott
The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred. — Bo Lozoff
When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life. — Sharon Salzberg
Once in a lifetime, perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with… — Loren Eiseley
We must strive everyday so that love of living humanity will be transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving… — Che Guevara
When it comes to believing things without actual evidence, we all incline to what we find most attractive. — James Hilton
It is love that transports us, that fills us with joy! Love turns life into one long adventure, every encounter is a dazzling experience -… — FranÃ§ois Lelord
No one should judge that he has greater perfection because he performs great penances and gives himself in excess to the staying of the body… — St. Catherine of Siena
My victims never knew what was going to happen to them. I've had shooting, knifings, strangulations, beatings, and I've participated in actual crucifixions of humans.… — Henry Lee Lucas
I have an acquired taste for language, yet it is seldom an actual focus of mine. — Saul Williams
A 'civilization' that makes such a ridiculous fuss about alleged 'war crimes' - acts of violence against the actual or potential enemies of one's cause… — Savitri Devi
If you learn indoor techniques, you will think narrowly and forget the true Way. Thus you will have difficulty in actual encounters. — Miyamoto Musashi
A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of greater, senior slaves.… — Laura Antoniou
The idea of hunting and gathering as the best way for life has become quite popular recently, much more populare in some circles than the… — Walter Truett Anderson
All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche
What makes me so certain that the natural human lifespan is far in excess of the actual one is this. Among all my autopsies (and… — Hans Selye
Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought. — Terry Pratchett
Judgment can be acquired only by acute observation, by actual experience in the school of life, by ceaseless alertness to learn from others, by study… — B. C. Forbes
When chess masters err, ordinary wood pushers tend to derive a measure of satisfaction, if not actual glee. — Israel Albert Horowitz
I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike… — Norman McLaren

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