"The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body."

-- Henry David Thoreau

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“What we hope for from the artist is help in discovering the significance of a place. In this sense we would choose in most respects for thirty minutes with Edward Hopperâ€™s painting Sunday Morning to thirty minutes on the street that was his subject; with Hopperâ€™s vision we see more.”
“The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.”
“When you're a lead role, I'm learning that you set a tone for the movie in a way, like a director does, or like other actors do. But it seems like you set a mood on set.”

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“I have no pleasure in any man who despises music. It is no invention of ours: it is a gift of God. I place it next to theology. Satan hates music: he knows how it drives the evil spirit out of us.”
“The future isn't a place that we're going to go, it's a place that you get to create.”
“Surely ruminating and lolling, squandering slivers of time as you ponder on this or that plant; perching about the place on seats chosen for their essential and individual quality, are other whole aspects of being a gardener. Why shouldn't we? We sit in other people's gardens, why not in our own.”
“No idle word should be uttered. I understand a word to be idle when it serves no good purpose, either for myself or for another, and was not intended to do so.”
“When God measures a church, He begins with its depth not its breadth, with its substance not its style.”

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