Chuck Close Quotes
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
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I am big believer that increase the size of the cake is as at least as important as distribution of the cake. To increase the size of the cake, you need to focus on progress.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Most of the tasks we do are for humans. For example, a tax calculation is counting numbers so the government can pull money out from my wallet, but government consists of humans.
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Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.
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I know the pressures of being the daughter of a great actress. But it's inspiring. You learn so much that other people don't get to learn until later on. My father being a director, I learnt a real work ethic.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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Each individual bears within himself an ideal man, and to bring him forth in perfect form is his divinely imposed life-work.
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'Deathstroke' became an interesting challenge - not just because of his ethnicity, but because he's a villain. I've never written a villain as a protagonist of a series before. I thought this could be an interesting challenge. That's really what got my attention, and it just went from there.
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Variant translations :
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Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
