Elizabeth Peyton Quotes
In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes sense to hear what they have to say.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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The Zionist movement gave political expression to our claim to the land of Israel. And in 1922, the League of Nations recognized the justice of this claim.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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That's one of the things I miss most about Australia - the countryside.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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I think everybody understands the fact that the right person will be cast for the role. So it's not theirs really to lose; they're just trying to find the right person.
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Women just love to shop.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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You have good days, you have bad days. But the main thing is to grow mentally.
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I'm not really a pianist.
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Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I know what they mean.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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Boards without women - blacklist those suckers. It's 2011. They've had the time - it's significant that they don't have women.
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Even after 'Gangster' being a success, I was considered a B-grade actress and was a sidekick, even though I was good at what I did, and was jobless for two years.
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I met my husband, Will Smith, when I was 19 and auditioned to be his date on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.' They said I was too short to play the part.
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Scripture tells us to "run with endurance the race that is set before us." As we do, may God hold close those who’ve been taken from us too soon.
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In 19th-century France, artists were part of government. Artists are very sensitive to their time. They're very thoughtful people - it makes sense to hear what they have to say.
