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The more mysterious, the more imperfect; as darkness is, in comparison with light--so is mystery, in comparison with knowledge.
Fashion is mysterious, as a rule. Why are blue jeans a classic? You just hit on something that happens to be timeless and right.
Personally speaking, Canada is becoming more and more beguiling and mysterious and I feel as though I really need to explore it.
People strangely revere dance. They see it as another world, and dancers are somehow mysterious - just because they don't speak.
Digital is my safety net. I know how to use it, how to operate those cameras; it makes sense to me. Film is much more mysterious.
The scapegoat has always had the mysterious power of unleashing man's ferocious pleasure in torturing, corrupting, and befouling.
I mean, there's chemistry in life and there's acting chemistry. I'm not saying they're the same thing, but they're as mysterious.
Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality.
Anti-Semitism and Fascism have a long, mysterious, bewildering, poisonous and vile history and it's not exclusive to the Germans.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Claire Denis's 'Beau Travail' is one of Denis's greatest achievements. One of the most mysterious and beautiful endings in movies.
I've been mistagged. I like ice climbing, but I do a lot more rock climbing. Ice is just more mysterious and changeable than rock.
'I am not adopted; I have mysterious origins.' I have said that sentence many times in the course of my life as an adopted person.
I can say, with a little arrogance, that I could be an actor, a cameraman, a writer, but composers are the most mysterious people.
For years I'd thought my color was black: deep, dark, thoughtful, mysterious. Black, you can hide behind. But now I know it is red.
People used to think that biological clocks were not only mysterious, they were seen almost as miracles. This is no longer the case.
The finest quality of our characters do not come from trying but from the mysterious and yet most effective capacity to be inspired.
Rhett Butler is very mysterious. He disappears, he reappears, God knows where he goes. We know nothing about his family to speak of.
My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
Creation is too grand, complex, and mysterious to be captured in a narrow creed. That is why we cherish individual freedom of belief.
What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up.
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.
You never tire of the moor. You cannot think the wonderful secrets which it contains. It is so vast, and so barren, and so mysterious.
Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I dropped in to see my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk.
Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.
But I can tell you markets are like women, always commanding, always mysterious, always volatile, always exciting and it is not a joke.
No progressive knowledge will ever medicine that dread misgiving of a mysterious and pathless power given to words of a certain import.
Acting is different from mental gymnastics. You try to discover as much about the character as you can, but a large area is mysterious.
Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It's such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process.
It is the mysterious touch of the ideal that animates and sustains the real, and through it alone we can discover and affirm the ideal.
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
There is so much about the process of writing that is mysterious to me, but this one thing I've found to be true: writing begets writing.
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
Novels are such mysterious and amorphous and tender things. And here we are with our crash helmets on, with concertina wire all around us.
The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
If I could make Panther tough, mysterious, wily, and often at odds with his 'Avengers' comrades, that was a character I'd find interesting.
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
It's impressive when you're such a mysterious fictional character that even avid enthusiasts are debating your existence within the mythos.
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It's something I don't feel like I really control.
Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.
Mystics exult in mystery and want it to stay mysterious. Scientists exult in mystery for a different reason: It gives them something to do.
I delight not in spreading any thing mysterious, for I consider it all lost time; but the things that all of us can see and know if we will.
More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
I often heard Latvians compare Russia and America. Latvians find both countries and their leaders possessed of the same mysterious confidence.
During rehearsals I am confronted by things very mysterious. I have terrific fights with inner demons, and it's more painful than it ever was.
For me, a theatre is a dark place. It should be mysterious; it's where we go to get away from all the utilitarian things we do in the daylight.
It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones.
I find it sad that by not talking about who I sleep with, that makes me mysterious. There was a time when I would have been called a gentleman.