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Source: Mediations and Contemplations: Containing Meditations Among the Tombs, Reflections on a Flower-garden, A Descant Upon Creation, Contemplations on the Night, Contemplations on the Starry Heavens, A Winter-piece ...

“There's only one way to break the color line. Be good. I mean, play good. Play so good that they can't remember what color you were before the season started.”

Way Mean Play Remember Lines Break Color Seasons Be Good One Way

Book:Aaron

Source: Aaron

“I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.”

People Lines Depends Rumor

Author:Barbara Walters

“I know of one semibarbarous zone whose librarians repudiate the "vain and superstitious habit" of trying to find sense in books, equating such a quest with attempting to find meaning in dreams or in the chaotic lines on the palms of one's hand.”

Knows Trying Book Dream Hands Lines Habit Vain Zone Quests Palms Attempting Find Me Librarian Chaotic Superstitious

Book:The secret books

Source: The secret books

“The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.”

Men Doe Lines Possibility He Man Becoming Pages Familiar Acquire Paragraph Illustration Encyclopedia

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“Nowadays, one of the churches of Tlön maintains platonically that such and such a pain, such and such a greenish-yellow colour, such and such a temperature, such and such a sound, etc., make up the only reality there is. All men, in the climactic instant of coitus, are the same man. All men who repeat one line of Shakespeare are William Shakespeare.”

Men Reality Pain Sound Church Lines Instant Repeats Colour Etc Yellow Temperature One Line

Author:Jorge Luis Borges

“The State is competent to assign duties and draw the line between good and evil only in its immediate sphere. Beyond the limits of things necessary for its well-being, it can only give indirect help to fight the battle of life by promoting the influences which prevail against temptation--religion, education, and the distribution of wealth.”

Source: The History of Freedom (and other Essays)

“Most of us stand poised at the edge of brilliance, haunted by the knowledge of our proximity, yet still demonstrably on the wrong side of the line, our dealings with reality undermined by a range of minor yet critical psychological flaws (a little too much optimism, an unprocessed rebelliousness, a fatal impatience or sentimentality). We are like an exquisite high-speed aircraft which for lack of a tiny part is left stranded beside the runway, rendered slower than a tractor or bicycle.”

“Truth is the shortest and nearest way to our end, carrying us thither in a straight line.”

Way Ends Truth Lines Truth Is Straight Lines

Book:The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...

Source: The works of the most reverend Dr. John Tillotson ...

“I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.”

Writing Trying Years Firsts Looks Mean Long I Can Remember Interest Lines Produce Favors Merit Fifteen Fifteen Years

Author:Kingsley Amis

“Let me assure my countrymen of the Southern States that it is my earnest desire to regard and promote their truest interest - the interests of the white and of the colored people both and equally and to put forth my best efforts in behalf of a civil policy which will forever wipe out in our political affairs the color line and the distinction between North and South, to the end that we may have not merely a united North or a united South, but a united country.”

“Every age has its temptations, its weaknesses, its dangers. Ours is in the line of the snobbish and the sordid.”

Age Lines Danger Weakness Temptation Snobbish

Author:Rutherford B. Hayes

“In legislation we all do a lot of swapping tobacco across the lines.”

Lines Legislation Tobacco Swapping

Author:Joseph Gurney Cannon

“I've grown to love L.A., but it's the most socially awkward place. All these people have come there not to be something but to pretend to be someone trying to be someone. Even in line for coffee, you're standing with someone who's trying to be so interesting.”

People Trying Lines Interesting Standing Coffee Awkward Socially Awkward

Author:Melissa McCarthy

“When I saw my first movie, I was fine, but I thought, "Oh, my heavens. It's not about just standing there on my mark and saying these lines. I need to actually act."”

Needs Firsts Heaven Lines Saws Fine Standing Mark Standing There

Author:Blake Lively

“Traditionally poetry is written in lines. But the prose poem is the kind of poem that isn't written in lines. It is lyrical prose that uses the tricks of poetry, such as dense imagery. This is a big topic of debate in poetry land. There's no perfect definition.”

Kind Use Bigs Lines Perfect Written Land Definitions Debate Tricks Prose Poetry Is Topics Imagery Lyrical Dense

Author:Campbell McGrath

“Some celebrities, it's interesting, because they're fantastic playing a character when somebody is writing the lines for them, and they're amazing actors, but they're not as comfortable on television in front of a live audience and just having a conversation and being themselves.”

Writing Character Actors Lines Interesting Audience Fronts Television Conversation Comfortable Fantastic

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“I love the supporting characters because you get to do more, to be totally honest. It's been sort of a theme with me. In Son of No One, I think I might have seven lines in the entire movie because everything is happening to my character.”

Thinking Character Might Lines Honest Son Happenings Seven Theme

Author:Channing Tatum

“If I want to do action, you don't really get to do it. They don't let you, there's too much on the line to let you jump out of a building.”

Ifs Want Action Lines Too Much Building

Author:Channing Tatum

“I think the most takes I've ever done would probably be maybe 10, on like a big studio movie where you can do those. But after a while it's like, "It's not gonna get any better, this is what it is," the light's just gonna dull from your eyes. I think the more you do it, the less the actors listen to each other because then you start memorizing the other person's lines and you start getting bored.”

Thinking Persons Done Bigs Light Eye Actors Can Do Lines Studios Bored Dull Memorizing

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I've never like had a system or a program, I always think that I don't know how to act. I'll adapt to any director because I don't really have a set way that I do things. If a director hires me and says, "I want you to get started right now and do this research, this research, this research and I want you to have every line memorized before you ever show up for the first day," then that's what I'll do.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Way Want Firsts Shows Lines Know How Right Now Directors Research Program I Want You

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I look for characters that are fun and that I'm going to have fun playing. By the way, that's whether it's drama, sci-fi, action, comedy, family movies or action-comedy. I just always want to have fun doing it. That's the bottom line.”

Way Want Looks Character Action Fun Lines Comedy Drama Bottom Having Fun Sci Fi Bottom Line

Author:Dwayne Johnson

“These types of films that are psychologically sort of dark at times, I find extremely exciting to do because there's always something to think about. There's nothing more boring than to show up on set and say a line and know that your character means exactly what they say. It's interesting to have an unreliable narrator in a film and that's what both of those films have been.”

Thinking Knows Mean Has Beens Character Shows Film Lines Dark Interesting Type Exciting Boring Unreliable Narrators

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“There is a fine line I have to walk throughout the writing process in a novel. It is this line between drama and melodrama, and it is this line between evoking genuine emotional power and being manipulative.”

Writing Process Lines Walks Novel Emotional Fine Drama Genuine Writing Process Fine Lines Melodrama Manipulative Emotional Power

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“Its very hard trying to talk to an actor about how they should deliver lines, or cut their hair, unless it comes from a place of a strong point of view.”

Should Trying Hard Actors Strong Lines Views Cutting Hair Point Of View

Author:Tony Scott

“I remember sitting in my room and thinking of where it all went wrong and how I ended up losing control of everything, and I realized I hadn't asked myself one question: And then what? That was my most important lesson. I learned to think about the consequences before the action and that saves me, to this day, from a lot of trouble. If you play it down the line, you'll start making better choices.”

Ifs Thinking Important Play Action Remember Choices Lines Rooms Trouble Lessons Losing Sitting Consequence I Realized This Day Save Me Important Lessons Losing Control

Author:Karrine Steffans

“I memorize my lines and I show up. I think it's just instinctual, and sometimes it's wrong and the director says, "No, do it this way." And then I can change, because I didn't spend all night practicing it this one way. All I do to get ready for the day is the night before, I read my lines once or twice, memorize them, and then I show up.”

Thinking Way I Can Sometimes Shows Night Lines Ready Directors One Way All Night

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“Art has to be incredibly layered. Symbols, signifiers... layers that relate. Combine signifiers with more abstract notions. Push! Vary lines.”

Art Lines Notion Symbols Relate Abstract Layers Vary

Author:Kay WalkingStick

“Only a single line is needed to discover who is doing what.”

Lines Needed Discovery Single Line

Book:Square Sun Square Moon: A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays

Source: Square Sun Square Moon: A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays

“The line comes before meaning.”

Lines

Book:Square Sun Square Moon: A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays

Source: Square Sun Square Moon: A Collection of Sweet Sour Essays

“I should like to take the wind and water and sand as a motif and work with them, but it has to be simplified in most cases to colour and force lines, just as music has done with sound.”

Should Done Force Sound Water Lines Cases Wind Colour Sand Motifs

Author:Arthur Dove

“Sculpture is a series of 3-dimensional shapes which, while fitting together, cause the perception of lines to the viewer, even where they do not exist.”

Together Causes Lines Shapes Perception Series Viewers Sculpture Fitting Fitting Together

Author:Edward J. Fraughton

“Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine harmoniously they give rise to perspective, foreground and background, and ultimately to emotion and other aesthetic attributes.”

Giving Art Form Lines Levels Emotion Perspective Elements Flow Paint Backgrounds Attributes Aesthetic Foreground Dabs

Book:This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

“What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.”

Way Art Different Form Lines Color Perception Art Is Echoes Canvas

Book:This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

“Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.”

Art Artist Lines Color Drawing Symbols Tone Plastic Graphic Formation Cornerstones Coordination

Author:John French Sloan

“Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.”

Light Used Lines Painter Shade

Author:John French Sloan

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