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There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are impaled on the crook of conditioning.

James Dean

At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it’s a challenge to pull any idea together.
JAMES DEAN

Adequate Art Book Force Idea Knowledge Satanic
You are who you are meant to be. Dance as if no one’s watching. Love as if it’s all you know. Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
JAMES DEAN

Dance Dream Forever Love Meant Today
I think the prime reason for existence, for living in this world is discovery.
JAMES DEAN

Discovery Existence Prime Reason Thinking World
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions. Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that.
JAMES DEAN

Actor Following Instruction Inspirational Motivational Order Play Scene
I also became close to nature, and am now able to appreciate the beauty with which this world is endowed.
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Able Appreciate Beauty Endowed Nature Now World
A fish that is in the water has no choice that he is. Genius would have it that we swim in sand. We are fish and we drown.
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Drown Fish Genuis Sand Swim Water
Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done.
JAMES DEAN

Actors Both Done Good Harder Man
On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.
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Anyone Challenge Day However Painting Pull Studio Through
Anyone with the physical qualifications can do that. So the director’s task is just that – to direct, to point the way. Then the actor takes over.
JAMES DEAN

Director Physical Point Qualification Task Way
Being a senior in high school means you’re not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that’s applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world.
JAMES DEAN

Adulthood Closer Dream High School Senior Thinking
If you’re not afraid, if you take everything you are, everything worthwhile in you and direct it at one goal, one ultimate mark, you’ve got to get there.
JAMES DEAN

Afraid Everything Goal Mark Ultimate Worthwhile
Remember: Life is short, break the rules
JAMES DEAN

Break Life Regret Remember Rule Short
You need to drink the drink, not act drinking the drink. You’ve got to do things and not show them.
JAMES DEAN

Act Drink Drinking Need Show Them
In the short span of his lifetime, an actor must learn all there is to know, experience all there is to experience, or approach that state as closely as possible.
JAMES DEAN

Experience Learn Lifetime Possible Short Span State
When an actor plays a scene exactly the way a director orders, it isn’t acting. It’s following instructions.
JAMES DEAN

Acting Director Following Instructions Order Play
An actual right is something that governments need merely to secure, not to implement.
JAMES DEAN

Actual Early Government Implement Need Right Secure Something

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