Chuck Close Quotes
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
Quotes to Explore
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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I did not love reading, spelling, math and science. I struggled. I was a terrible speller.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm, living public opinion.
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The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every publisher in New York and Canada, I shoved it in a closet and went on to write and publish my next three books.
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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'Frida' was a joy; this was delicious, I couldn't wait every day to get to the set, although I was exhausted, and have my leg get cut off or lose the baby or be in her shoes and get to play my hero and be able to go places emotionally. You know, we live for parts like this. This is a dream for an actor.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.
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The money was going to come and go, between a wife and the IRS. The thrill of beating the best field in golf is what will always stay with me.
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There are ways to win fights, and sometimes you don't always choose the easiest way to win a fight.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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My husband may have been in the military, but no one tells me which leader to follow.
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Our aim is not just to remove our uniquely incompetent Government from office-it is to destroy the socialist fallacies-indeed the whole fallacy of socialism-that the Labour Party exists to spread.
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I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.
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I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.
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Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at one time or another, failed at something. Often repeatedly, and discouragingly. But each failure is nothing more than a brick in the wall that forms the foundation of our success. We can't forget that.
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There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden.
