#study

I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. ↗

— John Dalton

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I'm always studying and I've been doing it for a long time now. ↗

— Danny DeVito

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Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me. ↗

— James Dean

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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters. ↗

— Edgar Degas

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The effect of studying masterpieces is to make me admire and do otherwise. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

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I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

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I study myself more than any other subject; it is my metaphysic, and my physic. ↗

— William Drummond

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There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#basics #down #his #how #i

There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no. ↗

— Connie Francis

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