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I think you have to control the materials to an extent, but it's important to let the materials have a kind of power for themselves; like the natural power of gravity, if you are painting on a wall, it makes the paint trickle and it drips; there is no reason to fight that. Keith Haring
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People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical.
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I was joking but he took responded seriously: 'I would know, and I couldn't live with myself knowing that I'd only run 97 miles or whatever.' Joe Henderson
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King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe. Adrian Belew
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Kerry's political attacks are not supported by reality, which shows rising employment and higher wages, and his policies -- higher taxes, increased regulation and bigger government -- would move America backward. Ken Mehlman
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Kerry's focus and his message has really been middle class, middle America, 'I'm standing up for the little guy' and middle class investors respond to that, but that raises the question of how do you go back and talk to the business community after that. Amy Walter
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Knowing who the actors were as you were designing them helped, with Catherine's beauty and Renee's frailty, they directed me visually just by who they were. Colleen Atwood
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Knowing what I do now, I certainly wouldn't decide to write a first novel because I wouldn't have anything like the necessary life experience. Judith Krantz
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Kids are healthier these days... more kids are in school around the world, and partly that's because Australians have been willing to invest in aid. Carol Foreman
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There's a lot of melancholy in my tracks.
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I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.
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It is dangerous and unbelievably fast and entirely different from the kind of track I am used to racing on Valentino Rossi
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Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment. Richard Dawkins
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Don't take anything from me because I'll track it down. Ursula Andress
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A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good. Robert M. Pirsig
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A good time occurs precisely when we lose track of what time it is. Robert Farrar Capon
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I don't tend to have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me. Robin Trower
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The train is roaring toward you and the villain is twirling his moustache and you're fussing that he's tied you to the tracks with the wrong kind of rope. Robin McKinley
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In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems. Tony Buzan
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I think book clubs should read more contemporary poetry. Chang-Rae Lee
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For Mallarmé naming an object meant suppressing three-quarters of its poetic pleasure (which consists in the joy of guessing bit by bit - "le suggérer, voilà le rêve!"). Umberto Eco
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poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge William Wordsworth
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Terrible times in which priests no longer merit the praise of poets and in which poets have not yet begun to be priests. Jose Marti
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Poetry has become the higher algebra of metaphors. Jose Ortega y Gasset
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The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Jose Bergamin
poetry lines serious
From not the gravest of Divines, Accept for once some serious Lines. Jonathan Swift
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A bard whom there were none to praise, And very few to read. Hartley Coleridge