Jamie Wyeth Quotes

Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.

Jamie Wyeth

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• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

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• One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.

  

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• I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.

  

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• Speaking is physically difficult for me.

  

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• I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.

  

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• Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.

  

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• All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.

  

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• I go to Buzzfeed and 'Huff Po,' IMDB, 'Deadline.' And then I just Google myself, like 'Aasif Mandvi in a hat,' and see what comes up.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
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• I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

  

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• Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.

  

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• Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.

  

  Valerie Plame
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• I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.

  

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• We have met the enemy and he is us.

  

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• Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

  

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• The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

  

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• Painting is a field that attracts a lot of lazy people. You can just sort of sit and wait for things to come to you. I know a lot of painters who'll sit and chat it up all night. But God, I just can't do that.

  

  Jamie Wyeth
  • People
  • Up
  • God