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The cartoons which I enjoy have caused some kind of out rage, but they have got people talking about these issues out in the open and in essence that's what its all about. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

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Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed. ↗

— William Shenstone

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I would be willing to do almost anything to make Art happy. I care about our friendship. The only thing I won't do is change the essence of my work. ↗

— Paul Simon

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The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual - when it begins to ignore the passions, the emotions - it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance. ↗

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I'm curious about other people. That's the essence of my acting. I'm interested in what it would be like to be you. ↗

— Meryl Streep

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When it's working, what acting is really about is getting into the essence of a moment in a creative, joyous way - through whatever frees you up. ↗

— Lili Taylor

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A novel captures essence that is not possible in any other form. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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They are imbeciles who call my work abstract. That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things. ↗

— Constantin Brancusi

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The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things. ↗

— Epictetus

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The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

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