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and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Sometimes, there's a preconceived notion of how a scene or how a work should be delivered. And I... CHRISTIAN CAMARGO Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the eq... COLIN ANGLE (The film) came with the idea that (my sister and I) would adapt the stories of Joyce Carol Oates. I... LISANNE SKYLER SIMONE WEIL TODD RUNDGREN ARTHUR MILLER JOSEF PIEPER CHRISTINA ENGELA If there has been anything in the history of popular music which could be described as a work of art... JOHN PEEL To be honest, I am somebody that, as long as I have a character, it doesn't really matter if it&... HANNAH TOINTON I'm very critical of crime novels that use gratuitous violence to shock readers when it isn'... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM LAURELL K. HAMILTON Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn ... NANCY KRESS DAISAKU IKEDA PATRICK NESS What would be a show that I would rescue? If I could bring anything back, it would be 'The Carol... TONY HALE Art is interesting because there can be so many different perspectives in a piece of art. The way I ... JOAKIM NOAH NEIL MARSHALL WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There will not be a lot of nudity or gratuitous sex. But will it be violent? Yes. Will you see a lot... TERRY FITZGERALD SAM HARRIS WENDELIN VAN DRAANEN I'm sure that he's growing a little tired of members taking what he believes are gratuitous personal... NORMAN ORNSTEIN People live for eating,but
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There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the n... 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
There is a fine line between something that's gratuitous, that's unnecessary. 
And if I'm guilty of having gratuitous sex, then I'm also guilty of having gratuitous violence, and ... 
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded... 
In 'Open City,' there is a passage that any reader of Joyce will immediately recognise as a ... 
I don't teach literature from my perspective as 'Joyce Carol Oates.' I try to teach fict... 
I'm not against asking the audience to work, but I think what you have now is a sort of gratuito... 
I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m... 
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to sp... 
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
To be or not to be. That's not really a question. 
An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping an... 
Learn to reject friendship, or rather the dream of friendship. To want friendship is a great fault. ... 
It seems like a totally gratuitous myth to tell people a giant rabbit comes round at night leaving c... 
It is a lie. 
If to know is to work, then knowledge is the fruit of our own unaided effort and activity; then know... 
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... 
Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence.... 
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... 
A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative. That'... 
I don't think they're gratuitous with the nudity on 'Game of Thrones.' It's very... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception... 
What sort of person you grow into should not be achieved by default, and often that's exactly wh... 
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. 
To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. 
It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic. 
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... 
I'm interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think... 
I believe that a work of art, like metaphors in language, can ask the most serious, difficult questi... 
I don't know what flirting is, really. Sometimes in women, friendliness comes across as flirting... 
If you have a character that doesn't have anything wrong with him, there's nothing funny abo... 
How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g... 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
The fact that we make a movie about it isn't gratuitous, 
I don't smoke and I don't want to smoke. I am not a fan of gratuitous smoking in films. 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Chur... 
If there is any moral in Christianity, if there is anything to be learned from it, if the whole stor... 
In terms of work I've always had a Bad Attitude in that I won't work anywhere which requires... 
I like connecting the abstract to the concrete. There's a tension in that. I believe the reader ... 
Sometimes when you're putting the work in it just seems so, so hard, and you never know when tha... 
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature 
There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don&... 
I guess I think like deep inside, I know that it's like, it's a different kind of performing... 
The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else'... 
There's a unique bond of trust between readers and authors that I don't believe exists in an... 
I always feel like the art's there and I just see it, so it's not really a lot of work. 
When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ... 
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
If we know anything about man, it's that he's not pacific. The temptation to butcher anyone ... 
Stephen picks up on Armstrong's pier, and calls Kingstown pier "a disappointed bridge" (2.22)... 
...There are bad novels and good novels, as there are bad pictures and good pictures; but that is th... 
There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think... 
It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. Wha... 
I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitou... 
If you're writing a scene for a character with whom you disagree in every way, you still need to... 
You need so much energy and encouragement to write that if someone says something negative, some of ... 
When people say there is too much violence in [my books], what they are saying is there is too much ... 
The bricks and mortar of the music business, they don't exist any longer. 
When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs. 
I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to ... 
It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like... 
As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if... 
There is such a thing as bad publicity.