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"Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste."

"The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person; and in the end they unite."

"All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on."

"Queen of arts and daughter of heaven."

"I did tests on small stones before collecting and committing myself to the larger ones."

"Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it."
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"Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in the end."

"I've played three presidents, three saints and two geniuses - and that's probably enough for any man."

"In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president."

"Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories."

"You can spend a lifetime, and, if you're honest with yourself, never once was your work perfect."

"Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy."

"Well, we have certainly produced great art before we did this. In my view, there are any number of areas of government which tax money should not be spent."

"Undeniably the American art form, too. And yet more and more, we see films made that diminish the American experience and example. And sometimes trash it completely."
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