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" Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. "

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" For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer. "

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" Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. "

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" Filmmaking, like any other art, is a very profound means of human communication; beyond the professional pleasure of succeeding or the pain of failing, you do want your film to be seen, to communicate itself to other people. "

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" The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. "

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" I don't do interviews under false pretenses. "

" Professionalism in art has this difficulty: To be professional is to be dependable, to be dependable is to be predictable, and predictability is esthetically boring - an anti-virtue in a field where we hope to be astonished and startled and at some deep level refreshed. "

" I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do. "

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" The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute. "

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" Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. "

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