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 think you grow up every year, every day. You learn something new and try to really worry about what's important in life.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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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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Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
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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 was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.
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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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Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.
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My dad got a job in a factory in Philadelphia, so I was raised in Germantown in a sort of a barracks for soldiers. They had housing for temporary housing. And then my parents saved money and bought a little house in South Jersey, built on a swamp.
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My biggest failure is I have too many to talk about.
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I have to be smarter than my opponents. I have to figure out their styles in the ring. I have to be three or four steps ahead of them. So my mind has to be sharp.
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There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that.
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Sometimes I really want to paint somebody and I don't get a photograph that I want to work from.
