It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately … - Igor Stravinsky

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So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

Igor Stravinsky

It's one of nature's way that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.

Distant, Generation, Generations, Grandma, Nature, Relationship

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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

Architecture, Art, Artists, Inspiring, Lesser, Steal

It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead of bringing art and reality closer together, the new movement merely thins out the distinction.

Abstract, Art, Distinction, Nature, Reality, Self

The faculty of creating is never given to us all by itself. It always goes hand in hand with the gift of observation.

Creating, Given, Hand, Hands, Observation

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street any more without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.

Animal, Convoy, Cross, Royal, Stares, Zoos

My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.

Childhood, Connected, Everything, Hell, Waiting

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Stephen Karam

So much of great American drama has been about a certain kind of dysfunctional family, and maybe my interests are in the kind of strange dysfunction that exists even among deeply functional families.

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Emo Philips

When I was ten, my family moved to Downer's Grove, Illinois. When I was twelve, I found them.

Funny, Humor, Illinois, Moved, Ten

Mike D

I don't mean to brag, I don't mean to boast, But I'm intercontinental when I eat French toast.

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Peace Pilgrim

The best way to come to terms with anything that is out of harmony is never to fear it - that gives it power. Bring good influences to bear upon it; make yourself a good example.

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Alfred Stieglitz

Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.

Ideas, Immature, Mistake, Photography, Popular, Work