#arts

Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change lines. Today, actors change everything and won't do parts. It's very different today. Back then, the producers were in charge. Today actors are more in charge. ↗

— Donna Douglas

#back #change #charge #different #everything

Everything starts with yourself, with you making up your mind about what you're going to do with your life. I tell kids that it's a cruel world, and that the world will bend them either left or right, and it's up to them to decide which way to bend. ↗

— Tony Dorsett

#bend #cruel #decide #either #everything

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding. ↗

— Rita Dove

#am #arts #comes #federal #federal funding

The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. ↗

— Paul R. Ehrlich

#intelligent #parts #rule #save #tinkering

Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying. ↗

— Hugh Hopper

#any #area #arts #copying #creative

The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

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I know every note in every song, the whole history of it, even parts that were there and are gone. ↗

— Enya

#every #gone #history #i #know

Part of my strength as an actor comes from what I've learned all these years: when you play a villain, you try to get the light touches; when you play a hero, you try to get in some of the warts. ↗

— John Forsythe

#comes #get #hero #i #learned

The main stem was then in most cases twisted in a zigzag form, which process checked the flow of the sap, and at the same time encouraged the production of side branches at those parts of the stem where they were most desired. ↗

— Robert Fortune

#cases #checked #desired #encouraged #flow

Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes, and are upon a footing with them. ↗

— Francis I

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