Chuck Close Quotes

No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

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• To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Forgive

• I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Beauty

• I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Time
  • School
  • Pretty

• Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • Life
  • World
  • Die

• A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Way
  • Best
  • How

• My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • World
  • Real

• I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • World
  • Women
  • Country

• When I was a kid, I would make these incredibly bloody movies in my back yard. I was constantly making weird blood concoctions; Jell-O and milk was a good one. I was constantly ruining clothes and staining my parents' walls and stuff.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Weird

• I lead a simple life. I feed the fish. I walk the dogs. I cook dinner. Occasionally I take a meeting.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Life
  • Simple
  • Dinner

• Living in a small Italian hilltown, and having lived in a small town in south Georgia, I understand that you can recognize a family gene pool by the lift of an eyebrow, or the length of a neck, or a way of walking.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Family
  • Small
  • Walking

• I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why should I work and worry any longer?

  

  Eddie Plank
  • Work
  • Why
  • Home

• There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Chance
  • Smart

• I was just a mini-star when we did 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Star
  • Wind
  • Just

• Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Man
  • Lose
  • Anger

• The first record I spent five years writing and it was an amalgamation of all the things that happened in my life from the time I was fifteen to the time I was twenty.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• I asked the producers when I was doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' if they could give me a VHS recording of the film that I could show to my family, because in Mexico and Latin America, when you do a film, you don't expect anybody to see it, especially not in the cinema.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Family
  • America
  • Me

• You can’t be reluctant to give up your lie and still tell the truth.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Up
  • Truth

• I spent two months in Fredericksburg, Texas, when I was 8, while my father shot a movie, and I loved it. I just embraced the whole cowboy culture. I got myself a pair of awesome boots and a cowboy hat.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Movie
  • Father
  • Culture

• I have had the good fortune to experience both the limelight and the traffic light as a musician. I did my first recording on my own and it was available at concerts. The second to seventh were released on small and then large labels. My eighth to 14th were done under my own steam once again, but with the benefit of the Internet.

  

  Jane Siberry
  • Good
  • Done
  • Experience

• Certainly anything that is news or opinion needs to be free on the Web, because the Web is this very fluid medium that is very much driven by links and the flow of visitors through a discussion via links.

  

  Fred Wilson
  • Free
  • Opinion

• When you look at a city, you know, it looks so unique. You feel this kind of uniqueness, you know, and especially if you go from a big city to a small city or if you go from one country to another. Cities look very different, often. They even feel very different. You know, and they are, of course. They certainly are.

  

  Geoffrey West
  • Different
  • Country
  • Small

• Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time

• Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Children
  • Family
  • Blood

• No one was more surprised than me when my paintings started selling, except maybe my dealer.

  

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