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A true artist is expected to be all that is noble-minded, and this is not altogether a mistake; on the other hand, however, in what a mean way are critics allowed to pounce upon us.

Allowed Altogether Artist Critics
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The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Admired Appears Art Artist
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I'm a big fan of British journalists like 'The Independent's Robert Fisk, but it's hard to find voices like his in the U.S.

Big Big Fan British Fan
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What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? This is exactly what your focus should be on. Jettison the fear of failure. Go for it.

Attempt Go for it Fail Focus
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I'm constantly doing new stuff, and I want it to be received really well. Who knows what's ego, what's business, what's artistic. It all shifts on a day-to-day basis.

Artistic Basis Business Constantly
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I like to be comfortable, but I do enjoy being a British gent and dressing up a bit.
Being Bit British Comfortable
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My job as an artist is to speak up for those who might be perceived as the losers. Or those who can't shout. No wonder public-school people always get into politics or acting: they're taught to shout that much more loudly.

Acting Always Artist Get
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Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics Professions Systematic organization
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Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Politics Unsatisfactory game
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Artist Expressing Feelings His
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Artist Energy Expressing Forces
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.

Age Airplane Any Artists
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
Artist Every Good He
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When I say artist I mean the man who is building things - creating molding the earth - whether it be the plains of the west - or the iron ore of Penn. It's all a big game of construction - some with a brush - some with a shovel - some choose a pen.

Big Brush Building Choose
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Why is it the philosopher who is expected to be easier and not some scientist who is even more inaccessible?

Easier Even Expected Inaccessible
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Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

Conservatism Know Secondhand Very
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We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.

Artists Belief Delightful Given
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.

Fact Full Future Notion
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A Librettist is a mere drudge in the world of opera.

Mere Opera World
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There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

AllThings Conservatism Constitution Describing
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It is one of history's ironies that Communism, advertised as a classless society, tended to breed a privileged class of feudal proportions.

History's ironies Classless society
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Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.
Every artist Own soul Nature
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The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

Arrogance Artist Profound Thing
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Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

About Doing Dream Engineers
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If there was a turning point for me, it was 'The Bridges at Toko-Ri.' It is a very fine short novel. But it gave me very little satisfaction. Really. I decided I wasn't going to go down that avenue.

Avenue Bridges Decided Down
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Real patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it's wrong.
Challenge Government Patriotism Real
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I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

Always America Aspect Back
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Why is it that English, drama and music teachers are most often recalled as our mentors and inspirations? Maybe because artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

Artists Because Crowd Drama
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When news of the crash came, probably a lot of people in small towns and farms across America felt a sense of grim satisfaction that the sinners had finally been punished for their wicked ways.

Across America Been Came
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Every artist dips his brush into his own soul.

Every artist Brush Soul
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I was never a skilled artist or anything like that - never a rebel.
Anything Artist Like Never
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For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture.

Arms Better Fine Gesture
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My mother was a housewife but she was also an artist. My father was an electrical engineer.

Also Artist Electrical Engineer
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People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.

Call Me Move Move On
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Around Artists Creativity Every
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You know there's nothing a Hill Democrat would rather do than criticize another Democrat. It is their favorite activity. Then they can read about how honorable they are in an Op-Ed piece, how bipartisan.

About Activity Another Bipartisan
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Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.

American American Politics Business Debating
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One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Also Conception Contrast Could
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My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

Christopher Good Graham Graham Greene
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If we could honestly promise young couples that we knew how to give them offspring with superior character, why should we assume they would decline? Common sense tells us that if scientists find ways to greatly improve human capabilities, there will no stopping the public from happily seizing them.

Assume Capabilities Character Common
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I wish there would be more movies about scientists.
About I Wish More Movies
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My record label is treating me like I'm a new artist, which is exciting after all this time.
After Artist Exciting Label
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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Above Artist Behind Beyond
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War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

About Actually Also Benefit
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The only knowledge which satisfies us is one which is subject to no external standards but springs from the inner life of the personality.

External Inner InnerLife Knowledge
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Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.

Against May Folly Hope
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You must learn to perceive as your self that which lies outside you. Looking only within oneself leads to a hardening in oneself, to a higher egotism.

Egotism Higher Leads Learn
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You can certainly get an idea of the value of memory if your memories can carry you out into the world no matter how utterly dissatisfied you may be with the present and wish you could get away from it.

Away Carry Certainly Could
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If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue.

Form Itself Kind Material
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I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

Basis Continue France Friendly
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