"So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear."
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"Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America."
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"The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies."
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"Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt."
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"As a work of art, it reminds me of a long conversation between two drunks"
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"If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is meant, then what must be done remains undone; if this remains undone, morals and art will deteriorate; if justice goes astray, the people will stand about in helpless confusion. Hence there must be no arbitrariness in what is said. This matters above everything."
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"If art reflects life, it does so with special mirrors."
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"Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems."
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"What is true stillness? Stillness in movement."
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"I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming."
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"The artists we love, they put their fingerprint on your imagination, and on your heart and your soul."
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"A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts."
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"Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure."
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"For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present."
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"Every authentic work of art is a gift offered to the future."
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"Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument."
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"Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process."
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"Magick is the Art of Life itself."
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"Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for."
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"IN CINEMA IT IS NECESSARY NOT TO EXPLAIN, BUT TO ACT UPON THE VIEWER'S FEELINGS, AND THE EMOTION WHICH IS AWOKEN IS WHAT PROVOKES THOUGHT."
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