"Whatever you feel or think your exact state at the exact moment of your brush touching the canvas is in some way registered in that stroke."
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"I find animated movies very touching. They reach an audience that's hard to get with a live-action film."
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"The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself."
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"She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs."
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"Sirius — it’s me . . . it’s Peter . . . your friend . . . you wouldn’t . . .” Black kicked out and Pettigrew recoiled. “There’s enough filth on my robes without you touching them,” said Black."
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"Touching your cap to the Squire may be damn bad for the Squire, but it's damn good for you."
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"Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake."
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"Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal."
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"It was a strange feeling, like touching a void."
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"Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil."
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"Thank you for touching me. Some of the only moments worth living were spent with you. Not you especially, the collective you."
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""What is good?" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: "To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching.""
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"THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?"
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"Sports have a way of touching people."
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"Music touching my soul, the spirit dance was unfolding."
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"I want him to burn for me, to not be able to go a day without touching me, holding me, caressing me. He'll be an excellent lover. I want a man who knows how to please me."
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"I sometimes think men don't 'hear' very well, if I take your meaning to be 'understand what is going on in a person.' That's what makes them so restful. Women wear each other out with their everlasting touching of the nerve."
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"I know i am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering."
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