Chuck Close Quotes
Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.
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I got a note from my father, who said that Success is wonderful, if you don't inhale. That was his own aphorism, and I think it's the very best thing he could have said to me or anyone else on the subject.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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I never pursued being 'famous.'
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.
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If I was Sean Connery, I would have been macho.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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My brother Martin is two years younger than me. There has never been any competition between us - clearly he was the good-looking one; he was also very sporty, and I am not a football player.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I fell in love with funk music through my father - Funkadelic - as well as soul and classical early on.
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I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.
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We have to be capable of facing such a number.
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That living specimen of gall and hatred, that individual.
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About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It's the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.
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Inspiration is highly overrated. If you sit around and wait for the clouds to part, it's not liable to ever happen. More often than not, work is salvation.
