Chuck Close Quotes
Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
Chuck Close
Quotes to Explore
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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.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
Natasha Richardson
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Netflix is something I watch.
Famke Janssen
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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.
Ted Nelson
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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.
Samantha Morton
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
Walter Salles
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
Edgar Ramirez
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The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.
Larry the Cable Guy
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I am very clear about keeping my professional and personal lives separate. I don't want to talk about certain things, and that's the way I am.
Krystle D'Souza
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Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.
Orison Swett Marden
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As a parent, you have to figure out how to shape your kid's character. You want to have human beings who learn about good character. You have to be able to see your child with clarity, see the good side and the bad side of them, and work on the bad side and make them better so they fulfill their potential.
Joan Cusack
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Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
Chuck Close
