Waldemar Januszczak Quotes
All I want to think about for a couple of months is art. The rest is a waste of time and emotion. So here’s the lovely Annunciation by Antonello de Messina I saw in Syracuse. Antonello was the first great Italian master of oil paints, because Sicily was too damp for fresco.
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Eighty percent of my life is normal like any other mother. I worry about my children, if they're doing all right. I worry that my husband is doing well. The 20 percent is just the queen aspect that factors in. But for me, it's life as usual, and it's just taking care of my family.
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My husband had a very strong identity and was successful in his life. Thank God for that. There's no way I can control him. I wouldn't stay married to him if I felt I could. I can readily take my business personality into the home. But he forces me to be a partner rather than the boss.
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A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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I want to cause a change with my life, make the world a little better.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.
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But now that I'm cartooning full-time, I'm more of an observer. I'm talking to people who are experiencing these things. But it's not like being in the trenches.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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No, I am not my mother. I am deeply, endlessly grateful for what she did and who she was, but I am a different kind of person.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.
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Most women find a man with good manners sexy.
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It's about timing and rhythm. But who could be better than Chaplin or Keaton?
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All I want to think about for a couple of months is art. The rest is a waste of time and emotion. So here’s the lovely Annunciation by Antonello de Messina I saw in Syracuse. Antonello was the first great Italian master of oil paints, because Sicily was too damp for fresco.
