Fronts Quotes - Page 27

• I grew up in front of a TV.

  Jemaine Clement

  Tvs, Grew Up, Grew

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, film.avclub.com. October 30, 2009.

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• To conceive music, to execute it in front of others, to make it so others can do it...it can be pretty humbling, and kind of scary. So yeah, I don't really feel in competition with anybody. Not because I feel elitist, but because I have enough self-competition. I'm always struggling.

  Ryan Adams

  Struggle, Self, Scary

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. June 28, 2007.

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• It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

  Francois Rabelais

  Oxen, Order, Folly

  "Gargantua" by François Rabelais, ch. XI, 1534.

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• How hard would it be to ask children what they see in their heads? How big should the house be in comparison to the family standing in front of it? What is it about the anatomy of the people that doesn't look right? Then let them try it again. Teach them to learn how to see and ask questions.

  Charles de Lint

  Children, People, House

  Charles De Lint (2000). “Triskell Tales: Twenty-two Years of Chapbooks”, Subterranean

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• To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Needs, Natural, Circumstances

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.

  George Burns

  Age, Vitality, Aging

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• Women want certain things in marriage--the right to a title and a front seat in the lap of luxury.

  Mae West

  Women, Luxury, Titles

  Mae West (1967). “The wit and wisdom of Mae West”

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• Even in front of nature one must compose.

  Edgar Degas

  Composition

  Edgar Degas, Rachel Barnes (1990). “Degas by Degas”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I am interposing overlaid planes a short way off... To make it understood that things are in front of each other instead of being scattered in space.

  Georges Braque

  Space, Way, Planes

  "Entretien avec Jauqes Lassaigne". Book by Georges Braque, 1961.

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• In front of the model I work with the same will to reproduce truth as if I were making a portrait. I do not correct nature, I incorporate myself into it; it directs me. I can only work with a model. The sight of human forms nourishes and comforts me.

  Auguste Rodin

  Sight, Portraits, Comfort

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• Happiness is right in front of you.

  Hafez

  Happiness

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• I'm lucky enough that there is never a blank canvas in front of me... I have hundreds of projects that I want to do but I am running out of time.

  George Lucas

  Running, Lucky, Want

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• Metal buildings are the dream that Modern Architects had at the beginning of this century. It has finally come true, but they themselves don't realize it. That's because it doesn't take an Architect to build a metal building. You just order them out of a catalog - comes with a bunch of guys who put it together in a couple of days, maybe a week. And there you go - you're all set to go into business - just slap a sign out front.

  David Byrne

  Dream, Couple, Order

  "Fictional character: Narrator". Musical, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1986.

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• I don't consider an actor a star if he's paid $20 million and grimaces in front of the camera and has a stunt man stand in for him. They may be fine actors, but they're not role models. The real stars are wearing body armor in 130-degree heat . . . They're getting shot at and they don't have any stunt doubles standing in for them.

  Ben Stein

  Stars, Real, Men

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• I am not altogether displeased with the shirt-front.

  Paul Cezanne

  Portraiture, Shirts

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• We march up, moody or good-tempered soldiers - we reach the zone where the front begins and become on the instant human animals.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Animal, Soldier, March

  Harold Bloom, Erich Maria Remarque (2008). “Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front”, p.89, Infobase Publishing

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• Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.

  Prince Charles

  Rose, Bed, Lotuses

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• I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.

  Sean William Scott

  Doors, Long, Elbows

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• The number of choices you make in the event that you see on stage, those choices are sometimes largely determined by the rehearsal process and the experiments that you go through and the choices that you make in the rehearsal room, not in front of an audience.

  Ben Kingsley

  Numbers, Choices, Events

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• The hard thing when you get old is to keep your horizons open. The first part of your life everything is in front of you, all your potential and promise. But over the years, you make decisions; you carve yourself into a given shape. Then the challenge is to keep discovering the green growing edge.

  Howard Thurman

  Years, Decision, Challenges

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• Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.

  Richard Rohr

  Spiritual, Religious, Prayer

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• If the glass there in front of me astounds me more than all the glasses I've seen in painting, and if I even think that the greatest architectural wonder of the world couldn't affect me more than this glass, it's really not worth while going to the Indies to see some temple or other when I have as much and more right in front of me.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Thinking, Glasses, World

  Alberto Giacometti, David Sylvester, Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd (1977). “Thirteen bronzes: Alberto Giacometti”

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• There is a lovely warmness about feelings of nostalgia as though in one's head one is putting on a pair of comfy old slippers and curling up in front of a fire.

  Bill Geist

  Fire, Feelings, Lovely

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• A lot of people... are afraid of pictures which have visible emotions in them. They feel calmer in front of pictures which are placid.

  Howard Hodgkin

  People, Emotion, Placid

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• It's interesting that at a time when she could have differentiated herself from the ranks of [Democratic National Committee Chairman] Howard Dean and Nancy Pelosi and the far left ranks of the Democratic Party, she chose to join those on the front ranks of the blame game, It would have been interesting if she had shown some level of restraint.

  Brian Jones

  Party, Games, Interesting

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