Elizabeth Peyton Quotes
You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.Elizabeth Peyton
Quotes to Explore
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
Felicity Jones -
I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
Ted Cruz -
Long term I do believe internationally there is a huge misunderstanding of Russia.
Oleg Deripaska -
The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.
Paolo Bacigalupi -
I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
Gary Cole -
That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.
Jackson Browne
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I grew up, until age 6, in Chicago. My parents rented their apartment and, at the end of the Depression, my parents wanted to replicate that situation. So, again, we lived in a somewhat suburban setting outside of New York City, and again, they rented.
Edmund Phelps -
There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.
Samuel Johnson -
So my one kid's 4, my other kid's 4 months, I'm 44, Barack Obama is the 44th president - it's all lining up nicely here.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.
Abraham Lincoln -
My biggest bits of advice are, write as much as you can, finish what you start, get a thick skin, don't take crap from anyone, but also live your life and have fun. The stereotype of a writer holed up alone all day is really unhelpful. You can't write real people and real emotion if you don't let yourself experience them.
Victoria Aveyard -
Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
Damien Rice
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I believe the root of all evil is abuse of power.
Patricia Cornwell -
I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.
J. J. Abrams -
Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.
Cameron Winklevoss -
I had spent time in New York, where I loved the idea that theater could be done up in tiny little rooms rather than for lots of money on a big stage, and be tied to ordinary life.
Garry Hynes -
I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
E. M. Forster -
I've always come into a show when the show was already up and running.
Tamara Tunie
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You get a little picture that reflects the whole. You can get readers interested in the life of one guy, and he can reflect the whole life around him. And it's a better picture than the politicians give you.
Jimmy Breslin -
I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people and live through their lives do you know what it's really about.
Genevieve Gorder -
The best gig is the one you've got.
Liev Schreiber -
The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.
James Daly -
The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.
H. L. Mencken -
You really need faith in yourself to make art and to stand up for what you believe in.
Elizabeth Peyton