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“In order really to write one has to sink deep into the self and become lost there.”
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“I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.”
Source : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1952). “Carvings and Drawings”
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“Truman fired the popular Gen. Douglas MacArthur because he disobeyed orders in the Korean War. Johnson knew that he had reached the endgame in Vietnam when Gen. William Westmoreland, the top commander in Vietnam, requested 240,000 more troops in 1968 for the prolonged war that also could not be won.”
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“All that some actresses want is for people to take them seriously instead of caring about how they look.”
Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Make things better than they have to be.”
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“I played golf competitively as a teenager. I actually took a year off after high school and just played golf and went to a university in France for maybe a month and dropped out.”
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“Right now I'm sick of acting, so it's like, Maybe I'll do writing for a bit. Then, when I'm tired of writing, I'll go work on my music. When I'm sick of music, I'll be like, I'm going to start performing comedy now. So it's good. It's not like I want to be famous or anything.”
Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.
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“Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better.”