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We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and material as the warmth given up by a glass of brandy.
Rebecca West

Real, Material, Comfort

As a kid, I always loved serialized books. It's the reason why people love 'Harry Potter.' Serialization is amazing. It works in television. It works in film and it works in books. Especially when you're a young kid, you get attached to these characters.
Mindy Kaling

Love, Amazing, Why

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
Maya Lin

Time, Journey, Space

But if I were to say who influenced me most, then I'd say Franz Kafka. And his works were always anchored in the Central European region.
Vaclav Havel

Influenced, Region, Anchored

The Porto players were with me for two and a half years, they believed in me, in my methods, in the way we do it. The next day I go and a manager arrives who works completely differently.
Jose Mourinho

Two, Next, Half

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
John Dryden

Love, Wise, Fool

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.
Susan Sontag

Art, Experience, Real

I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't.
Twyla Tharp

Music, Art, Dance

On set I keep myself to myself; I'd rather the director speak up. I'm not gonna direct a younger actor. I think the power of example works best, actually.
Gary Oldman

Power, Best, Keep

We have to make sure the Good Friday Agreement works.
Gerry Adams

Good, Friday, Sure

I've made movies that I thought were good. I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, I wish more people saw that - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.
Christopher Walken

Good, Business, Movies

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.
Tommy Chong

Work, May, Else

I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs.
Lenny Kravitz

Whatever, Write, Songs

There are movies that require fantasy and slightly more fantastical acting. Lines that are good for certain movies, in real life circumstances, would be absolutely unbelievable things to really say, and you would look at these people like they're freaks for conversing that way. But somehow for certain styles of movies, it works, and it seems fine.
Christian Bale

Life, Good, Movies

Now before I work out, I think, 'I love exercise,' and it works.
Ashley Tisdale

Love, Work, Before

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.
Marc Chagall

Heart, Nothing, Everything

Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
John Updike

Said, Until, Writer

When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.
Kristen Wiig

Nothing, Comfort, Satisfying

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.
Mortimer Adler

Love, Found, Scientists

I laugh a lot in horror films. If I'm scared in a horror film, I try to think about what's scaring me... particularly, if it's a bad movie, but something they're doing still works. It's the same way I look at comedy. I've always had an intellectual view of comedy, and what makes people laugh, and how does it work.
Jason Reitman

Work, Bad, Laugh

The weight comes off, you know? If you stop with the bread and the pie, it really does. It really works.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Off, Stop, Bread

It's hard for anybody who works a lot and has children. But I wouldn't trade it for anything.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Children, Hard, Anybody

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
Naomi Campbell

Mistakes, Learn

I want to be more like Pixie Lott. She works really hard but always manages to keep smiling. She never complains.
Ellie Goulding

Hard, Keep, She

The Bush administration works closely with a network of rapid response digital brownshirts who work to pressure reporters and their editors for 'undermining support for our troops.'
Al Gore

Work, Support, Pressure

I like people who are working on practical things and who are working in teams. It's not so important to get the glory. It's much more important to get something that works. It's a better way to live.
Freeman Dyson

Live, Important, Working

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
Garry Kasparov

Art, Game, Through

You can say that I lived in Asia for a long time and in Japan I became close to several CIA agents. And you could say that I became an adviser to several CIA agents in the field and, through my friends in the CIA, met many powerful people and did special works and special favors.
Steven Seagal

Time, Powerful, Long

Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
Alexandre Dumas

Love, Art, Through

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Milan Kundera

Become, Criticism, Soon

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