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• We worked on 'Fanny and Alexander' for seven months and it was an amusing production. Still, it was very long and heavy and so awfully complicated, .. And when the premiere was over and everything went well, I thought, 'That's that.' .

  Ingmar Bergman

  Seven Months, Amusement, Complicated

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• There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Running, Wall, Light

  Vlada Petrić, Ingmar Bergman (1981). “Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman”, Redgrave Publishing Company

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• I did a load of medicine cabinets a long time ago and I named them after Sex Pistols songs. I suppose I must be getting old if I'm naming work after Philip Larkin poems.

  Damien Hirst

  Song, Sex, Medicine

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• The moving toward one's inner self is a long pilgrimage for a painter. It offers many temporary successes and high points, but impels him on toward the more adequate image.

  Ben Shahn

  Moving, Journey, Self

  Ben Shahn (1957). “The Shape of Content”, p.36, Harvard University Press

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• The unity and congruity of culture and nature, work and love, morality and sexuality, longed for from time immemorial, will remain a dream as long as man continues to condemn the biological demand for natural sexual gratification.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Dream, Men, Unity

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.

  Bill Moyers

  Running, Government, Grace

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• Give your mind as long as possible to come up with something original.

  John Cleese

  Giving, Mind, Originality

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• In the long run, the right answer to unemployment is to create more jobs.

  George W. Bush

  Running, Jobs, Unemployment

  "Daschle optimistic on stimulus bill". www.cnn.com. December 3, 2001.

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• Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Addresses, Praise, Drag

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• So I've seen life as one long learning process.

  Richard Branson

  Life, Process, Airline

  "Life at 30,000 feet". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.ted.com.

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• Now then, you of noble mind, who love this profession, come at once to art and accept these precepts: enthusiasm , reverence, obedience, and perseverance. As soon as you can, place yourself under the guidance of a master, and remain with him as long as possible.

  Cennino Cennini

  Perseverance, Art, Mind

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• I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970.

  Virgil Thomson

  Writing, Years, Four

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• How long were the stretches of toilsome tacking back and forth, of being blocked, of being thrown back again and again. But all that was annulled by the periods when I had my technique in hand and succeeded in doing what I wanted.

  Kathe Kollwitz

  Hands, Technique, Periods

  Käthe Kollwitz, Hans Kollwitz (1988). “The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz”, p.120, Northwestern University Press

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• Twas a jolly old pedagogue, long ago, Tall and slender, and sallow and dry; His form was bent, and his gait was slow, His long thin hair was white as snow, But a wonderful twinkle shone in his eye. And he sang every night as he went to bed, "Let us be happy down here below: The living should live, though the dead be dead." Said the jolly old pedagogue long ago.

  George Arnold

  Happiness, Eye, Night

  George Arnold, “The Jolly Old Pedagogue”

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• Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.

  Harry Kemp

  Lonely, Long Ago, Sky

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• In such a world as this, with such hearts as ours, weakness is wickedness in the long run. Whoever lets himself be shaped and guided by any thing lower than an inflexible will, fixed in obedience to God, will in the end be shaped into a deformity, and guided to wreck and ruin

  Alexander MacLaren

  Running, Heart, Decision

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.

  James Taylor

  Suicidal, Wife, Months

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• How could I, blest with thee, long nights employ; And how with the longest day enjoy!

  Tibullus

  Night, Thee, Enjoy

  Tibullus, Gerard Van der Gucht (1720). “The Works of Tibullus: Containing His Four Books of Love Elegies”, p.199

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• I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.

  Sean William Scott

  Doors, Elbows, May

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• I seem initially to have followed Fauvism, and then to have followed in Cézanne's footsteps. Whatever - I do not mind... as long as first of all I remained Vlaminck.

  Maurice de Vlaminck

  Style, Mind, Firsts

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• Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty

  Nathanael Emmons

  Beautiful, Veils, Modesty

  Nathanael Emmons (1861). “The Works of Nathanael Emmons, D.D., Third Pastor of the Church in Franklin, Mass: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.101

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• When a manufacturing engineer is hired to create new products but insists on sharing his "wisdom" in accounting with the company controller, he is not going to last long in that company.

  Chin-Ning Chu

  Lasts, Company, New Products

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• If the director wishes to print it, then you have a series of choices, maybe millions of choices within that minute-and-a-half, or 80 seconds, or 2 minutes or however long or short the take is, you have all those choices committed to celluloid. I find that absolutely thrilling.

  Ben Kingsley

  Choices, Wish, Directors

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• In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Luxury, Tourists, Asian

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• One way to cope with the provocations of novel art is to rest firm and maintain solid standards... set by the critic's long-practiced taste and by his conviction that only those innovations will be significant which promote the established direction of advanced art.

  Leo Steinberg

  Art, Standards Set, Innovation

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