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A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.
Art Beautiful Body Work
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For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

Time Important Care Hard
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When you fall in love with a work of art, you’d die to meet the artist. I am a student of the galleries of Pacific sunsets, full moon rises on the ocean, the clouds from an airplane, autumn forests in Raleigh, first fallen snows. And I’m dying to meet the artist.

Artist Fall Work Die
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

Disneyland Go Idea Just
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Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art - an individual masterpiece.

Winners Ability Step Back
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Israel has created a new image of the Jew in the world - the image of a working and an intellectual people, of a people that can fight with heroism.

Created Fight Heroism Image
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When I left Maine, I always wanted to be a working actor. I never cared too much about being the star. I just wanted to do the work and get on with it.

Left Maine Always Working
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The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character.

Action Camera Character Director
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Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.

Become Develops Discouraged Every
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The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
Art Engineering Foot Human
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To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Art Eat Food Good
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The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

Composing Discovers First Last
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I am very career minded, and I think my personality is more suited to America. I am a working mother.

Am America Career I Am
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We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

God Guinea Guinea Pigs Humanity
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But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do.

Experiences I Think Life Places
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I don't try to come in and act like I know it all, and that's why I put the extra work in of watching film, getting an understanding of what you want from personnel, each player.

Act Come Each Extra
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The hardest thing that I had to do every day as a working single parent was child care, to have to leave my child with people that I did not know and hope everything was OK, that was the most painful part of every day.

Care Child Child Care Day
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I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale.
Bigger Just Musician Scale
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

Bores Rich Down Office
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If I could prescribe a single rule for looking at a work of art it would be to enjoy it. If we're honest with ourselves, we have to admit we enjoy our tears just as much as we enjoy our laughter. The only moments of life that are a bore are when we don't care one way or another.

Art Laughter Tears
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I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
Blue-Collar England Family Kid
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Also, there are authors and publicists using the Internet to manipulate opinion, both positively for a work and negatively against the competition. I don't do this and can't stomach it, honestly.

Against Also Authors Both
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I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain.

Addict Any Became Because
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No days off. I'm a workaholic.

Days Off Workaholic
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

After Because Fact Hundred
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The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.

Corrects Customers Discipline Effectual
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A work of art has no importance whatever to society. It is only important to the individual.

Work Art Society Only
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.

Flesh Love Actual Letter
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It never became an obsession for me to score at all costs. I've always said that I'm not a big scorer, I'm a worker.

Always Big Costs Never
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This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.

Casting Certain Characters Doubts
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I was brought up in a very ordinary family, in fact, a worker's family. Both my father and mother were ordinary citizen.

Citizen Family Father Mother
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You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

Art Calculate Enemies Harm
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Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Flesh Much Soul Style
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The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

Attracts Better Criticism Fleas
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Adjusting to any “uncomfortable” is stressful, frustrating, and definitely a learning curve. Be mindful through challenging times that many others are fighting thru their own set of problems as well. Kindness, tolerance, and patience take extra work, but have a huge impact.

Uncomfortable Stressful Frustrating Mindful
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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

Collar Brother Came Dude
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Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Once Start Working Afraid
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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Always Canvas Did Every
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All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

Actor Really Wanted Working
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I wanna work with good people. I don't want to work with screaming, yelling directors who've got daddy issues. I just don't want to deal with those guys.

Daddy Deal Directors Good
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A classic is a work which persists as a background noise even when a present that is totally incompatible with it holds sway.

Background Classic Even Holds
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I never feel with the fashion stuff that it's too fake. If I was a model and had a working part in Fashion Week, then I might feel like that, but I'm just a visitor. I really only walk in and watch the shows and think, 'Maybe I could wear that in a video.' I meet the designer, say hello, and then I go.

Could Designer Fake Fashion
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The ideal director does not exist, every director is a work in progress…the older you get, the better your craft, unless you are a banana.

Ideal director Work In progress
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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

Actor Always Just Stop
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Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art.
Art Design Ever Gets
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If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.

After Banana Best Between
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A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter...

Work Art Significance Impose
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

Tell you Truth Trinity Accept
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It is from work that men are rich in flocks and wealthy, and a working man is much dearer to the immortals

Work Men Rich Wealthy
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If you have a workforce that enjoys each other, they trust each other, they trust management, they’re proud of where they work – then they’re going to deliver a good product.

Workforce Enjoys Trust management Good product
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