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.
Quotes to Explore
-
I like sitting close to windows.
-
For 'Regulate,' I was at home, and I came up with it. I was listening to Michael McDonald's 'I Keep Forgettin'.' It was a record that I always loved, from being a kid and my parents playing it when they had their company of friends over. It was a record that just stuck in my head, and it just felt good.
-
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
-
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.
-
I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
-
Speaking is physically difficult for me.
-
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.
-
Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
-
All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
-
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.
-
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!
-
Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
-
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.
-
I think it's good to have pressure on yourself. The worst crime is to get kind of really complacent.
-
We have met the enemy and he is us.
-
Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
-
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
-
Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
-
A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
-
People are inexterminable like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices that's us.
-
I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.
-
Nights and days came and passed and summer and winter and the sun and the wind and the rain. and it was good to be a little island a part of the world and a world of its own all surrounded by the bright blue sea.
-
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.
