Chuck Close Quotes
Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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Each of us have things and thoughts and descriptions of an amazing universe in our possession that kings in the 17th Century would have gone to war to possess.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I've always been extremely physical. I was a gymnast for 15 years, and then I was a dancer for nine, so I was kind of looking for these parts. But we have a tendency in Denmark not to do many action films.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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Open-minded tech tinkerers may still prefer traditional PCs for work because they allow much more customization than, say, an iPad.
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Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
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When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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You wouldn't know it, but I'm no good at recognising people; I have face blindness.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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My coldest days, my darkest days, ain't no sun out, all I got is my fans. They the only people I ride for. Believe it or not, if you're a real Fat Joe fan, a Terror Squad fan, I do it for ya'll.
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Sometimes I listen to music and I wonder how did they get certain sounds.
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Though men may be deep, mentally they are slow.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.
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I loved all the people involved with '30 Rock.'
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Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith.
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I worked at a daycare for a couple of years going through high school and college. I did youth sports camps. I ran all the camps through my college.
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I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.
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Painting is a lie. It's the most magic of all media, the most transcendent. It makes space where there is no space.
