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• It is a curious fact that out-of-door nature is to the beginner an enormously overloaded 'property room.' He sees, for instance, the myriad of leaves upon the tree long before he sees the tree at all.

  John F. Carlson

  Doors, Tree, Beginners

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• There is a hunger to see the human presence acted out. As long as that need remains, people will find a way to do theater.

  Zelda Fichandler

  People, Needs, Way

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Widow" is a harsh and hurtful word. It comes from the Sanskrit and it means "empty." I have been empty too long.

  Lynn Caine

  Mean, Hurtful, Widows

  Lynn Caine (1974). “Widow”

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• When you're entertaining all day long and that's your work, you end up really very tired. You don't have a lot of energy left over for your loved ones.

  Sia Furler

  Tired, Energy, Loved Ones

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As long as you do not hold a balance between your seeing of things and your execution, you will do nothing that is really good.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Balance, Execution, Seeing

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• So long as the majority of Canadians have two countries, one here and one in Europe, national unity will remain a myth and a constant source of internecine quarrels.

  Henri Bourassa

  Country, Europe, Two

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• So long as our land is occupied it is the right of the Palestinian people and their factions to combine resistance and political activities. Resistance and its arms are directed against the occupation while political activity is part of re-arranging the Palestinian home.

  Khaled Mashal

  Home, Land, People

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• So long as there is an Israeli occupation in Palestine and so long as U.S. policy is biased, the so-called terrorism that the United States fears will escalate because the mistakes of U.S. foreign policy are pouring oil on fire.

  Khaled Mashal

  Mistake, Oil, Fire

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• There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.

  Khaled Mashal

  Occupation, Stability, Aggression

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• Resistance will continue as long as the occupation and aggression continues. There is no recognition of Israel, no matter what the cost is.

  Khaled Mashal

  Israel, Cost, Occupation

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• When you have been in TV and performing for as long as I have, you realise that you probably entertain in your sleep too... as for my catch phrase, I didn't actually say so much 'Can you see what it is yet?

  Rolf Harris

  Sleep, Tvs, Phrases

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• Change isn't optional, and creation isn't something that happened a long time ago and then ended. It's ongoing, and we are invited to be a part of it. The question for us is 'what will we create in this new day?' How will we make it count? How will we nourish the things that matter, and stand in the way of injustice in the small ways that add up to the arc of history? You are invited to participate in the creation of this day.

  David LaMotte

  Change, Creativity, New Day

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• Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress you.

  Randy Pausch

  Patience, People, Waiting

  "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams". Randy Pausch's last lecture at McConomy Auditorium of Carnegie Mellon University, www.youtube.com. September 18, 2007.

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• A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.

  Raymond Moody

  Attitude, Humor, People

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• An ivory tower is a fine place as long as the door is open.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Doors, Ivory Tower, Solitude

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• We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.

  Robert Genn

  Artist, Space, Trying

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• When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.

  Robert Genn

  Hunger, Efficiency, Studios

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• If Picasso drips, I drip... For a long while I was with Cezanne, and now I am with Picasso.

  Arshile Gorky

  Cezanne, Imitation, Ifs

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• So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect.

  Lawren Harris

  Art, Nature, Moving

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• A painter is always overjoyed when anybody pays any attention to him at all, puts him in any category, calls him anything - as long as they call him something.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Attention, Pay, Recognition

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• You have to believe in what you're doing. In the long run, you have to feel that what you're doing, regardless of the trends, will have a lasting quality. Someday someone may pick it up and recognize that it was superior.

  Will Barnet

  Running, Believe, Quality

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• In art and science we are now in a delta, at the end of the long flow of progress. In a delta there is no clear direction but there may be many choices. The best we can do is to enjoy the choices that we have and to be genuinely and creatively eclectic.

  Robert Bateman

  Art, Clear Direction, Choices

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• Artists of all sorts remain youthful for so long, and in many cases attain a grand old age. The explanation is that they live in an almost permanent condition of stimulation and excitement.

  Egon Friedell

  Artist, Age, Aging

  Egon Friedell (2008). “A Cultural History of the Modern Age Vol. 1: Renaissance and Reformation”, p.60, Transaction Publishers

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• I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head.

  Alvin Ailey

  Girl, Dance, Arms

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• How often are you worrying about the present moment? The present moment is usually all right. If you're worrying, you're either agonizing over the past which you should have forgotten long ago, or else you're apprehensive over the future which hasn't even come yet. We tend to skip over the present moment which is the only moment God gives any of us to live.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Past, Long Ago, Should Have

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