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When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.
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When it comes to comedy, it might be interesting to know why an airplane works, but really? Maybe it's better not to know why certain things work. Just fly the thing, and if nothing falls apart, you'll be fine.
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When we are children, we think that adults know how the world works. When we become adults, we know enough about the world to know that we know nothing about it...
Zire Notes May 2004 December 2006 -
When you're like, 'Yo, we gotta write a hit song, we need a hit song right now,' that never works. Every time that happens, I never write a hit song.
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When you're lucky enough to get paid a nice chunk of change to write a movie or a TV show, you have no right to complain, really. I guess it's more of an appeal to the powers that be that the less they interfere, the more likely, actually, they are to get something that works, I think.
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With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change.
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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
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Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
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Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
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Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do belive in Art for Art's sake.
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Yet, that's what studios do. If one thing works, they'll keep doing it till it runs its course and people aren't interested anymore.
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You can always enhance your natural beauty; you learn what works for your face because crazy make-up doesn't really suit anyone.
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You get a sense of how the show works and then let your personality take over.
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You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.
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Your life works to the degree you keep your agreements.
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[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life...
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A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
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In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.
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