M Quotes
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“Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there to do? I mean you do.”
“Most artists, ashamed of their need for encouragement, try to carry their work to term like a secret pregnancy.”
Source: The Sound of Paper
“Most artists, most painters, even composers would want to come back and redo their work. They've got a new perspective on it, they've got more resources, they have better technology, and they can fix or finish the things that were never done.”
“Most artists, or at least most of the ones I know, deny having a philosophical outlook that they try to translate into their works. Some had thought of the work of Cezanne and others as being a 'painted epistemology.' But Cezanne himself denied this and Daniel-Henri Kahnwiler, the art critic and art dealer, insisted that none of the many painters he had known had a philosophical culture.”
“Most artists, you know, you spend their entire lives learning how to play music and write songs, and they don't really know how the music business works.”
“Most arts have produced miracles, while the art of government has produced nothing but monsters.”
“Most arts require long study and application, but the most useful art of all, that of pleasing, requires only the desire.”
“Most aspects of my training didn’t agree with me. There wasn’t as much bossing around as I’d hoped for, and there was way too much following orders.”
Source: Rogue
“Most aspiring child actors or child stars have a passion for it. But as easy as it is for me to say that I wouldn't put my kids in it, if I saw that they really, really wanted to do and they had the drive, then I would fully support it. As long as there's balance at home, then they could do whatever they wanted to do.”
“Most aspiring screenwriters simply don't spend enough time choosing their concept. It's by far the most common mistake I see in spec scripts. The writer has lost the race right from the gate. Months - sometimes years - are lost trying to elevate a film idea that by its nature probably had no hope of ever becoming a movie.”
“Most assume that having the Armor of God on in battle you live or you die and nothing in between while it’s very possible that most are wounded in the spirit and still alive. In war many of us were wounded but came out alive because we had better armor then previous wars. We came back broken but not dead. It’s how you take you being broken and what you do at that moment that determines your future and the impact you make to those around you”
“Most assuredly Zen is a religion, but it is a religion without scripture, without doctrine or dogma and without sin.”
Source: The Art of Zen Meditation
“Most astronauts are very down-to-earth people. Many of us, three-quarters, have an engineering degree, and we have a very Cartesian, rational approach to things. You don't go and get swept off your feet. That's not your job and that's not why you're hired. So if you get so mesmerized that you forget to do what you're supposed to do, whether it's to open the cargo door of the space shuttle or configure something inside, then you should not be there as a professional operator.”
“Most asylum seekers do get permanent visas, so the earlier they receive the appropriate help, the faster they will become part of the community. They'll get jobs and start paying taxes too. They will see Australia as a nation with a sense of care and concern. That's so important for a cohesive society. It helps build a sense of belonging. And in terms of common decency, it's what should be happening... For God's sake, this is Australia, people should be treated with decency and humanity.”
“Most atheists bristle at the thought that atheism has anything to do with faith, but not Penn Jillette.”
Source: Famous Atheists
“Most attackers are looking for easy victims. They’re not looking for a fight, not even a verbal one. Saying No makes you a less attractive target. Submitting and being nice to attackers in the hope that they will be nice to you in return is not the safest strategy.” Saying “No!” helps you gather your energy, reminds you of your right to say No, draws attention, and expresses your power.”
Source: The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes
“Most attorneys practice law because it gives them a grand and glorious feeling. You give them a grand - and they feel glorious.”
“Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.”
“Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.”
“Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.”
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“Most authoritarians do not surrender power voluntarily.”
“Most authors have one idea per book. Shakespeare had two per sentence.”
“Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like that. It is a small, slow crawl to the finish line. Honestly, I have moments when I don't even care if anyone reads this book. I just want to finish it.”
Source: Yes Please
“Most authors steal their works, or buy.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope; with a Memoir of the Author, Notes, and Critical Notices on Each Poem. By the Rev. George Croly ... New Edition. [With a Portrait.]
“Most automobiles spend about 80 percent of their time sitting around doing nothing. They're gasoline powered; they go to very high speeds, which in fact, under urban conditions, you don't need. These high speeds generate enormous safety requirements and so on and so forth. Now you can incrementally tweak the automobile. You can make the power train more efficient and you can enhance safety and all of these sorts of things that are very worthwhile.”
“Most autumns, the water is low from the long dry summer, and you have to get out from time to time and wade, leading or dragging your boat through trickling shallows from one pool to the long channel-twisted pool below, hanging up occasionally on shuddering bars of quicksand, making six or eight miles in a day's lazy work, but if you go to the river at all, you tend not to mind. You are not in a hurry there; you learned long since not to be.”
Source: Goodbye to a river: a narrative
“Most awards, you know, they don't give you unless you go and get them - did you know that? Terribly discouraging.”
“Most baby books also tend to romanticize the mother who stays at home, as if she really spends her entire day doing nothing but beaming at the baby and whipping up educational toys from pieces of string, rather than balancing cooing time with laundry, cleaning, shopping and cooking.”
“Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.”
“Most bad behavior is about that person’s core fears about themselves; it is rarely about you.”
“Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.”
Source: Truth and Lies in Literature, A Writer's Ten Commandments: (Revised and Extended edition)
“Most bad luck is the misfortune of not being an exception.”
“Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.”
“Most ball games are lost, not won.”
“Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.”
“Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.”
“Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.”
“Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.”
“Most bands have a sound that they're already identified with, so for the producer it becomes a process of helping them find their muse in the studio to make a record that will not only satisfy them artistically, but will also do something in the marketplace.”
“Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.”
“Most bands people have side projects and it's not considered a death threat as it was say, with The Beatles.”
“Most bands, if something goes wrong, they cower and walk off stage and fire people.”
“Most bands, when they sign with a major, are from an indie. They usually start off with a big dilemma. They think they're selling a part of their souls or they're losing control over an aspect of their lives or something.”
“Most banks - with Deutsche Bank at the top of the spectrum here - have decided that they can't make money lending to barrowers anymore, so they're going to the second business plan: They lend money to casino capitalists. That is, to people who want to gamble on derivatives.”
“Most battles are won before they are ever fought.”
“Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.”
“Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind.”
“Most beautiful of things I leave is sunlight,
then come glazing stars and the moon's face,
then ripe cucumbers and apples and pears.”
“Most beautiful rocks form under pressure, it's same with people.”