Jamie Wyeth Quotes
From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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I think people come and go, 'I'm going to find the real Gary. What is it... the real Gary? I've got to find it.' But the thing is, it's pretty much what you see is what you get. I'm just like this. There's no hidden viciousness.
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'Obvious' is the most dangerous word in mathematics.
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If you're an English actor and turn up in America, they don't have an opinion about where you sit. They have no idea what auditions to send you to, so they send you to everything.
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A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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You need to love your life; you have to appreciate yourself.
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I write novels and other things.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
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As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.
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Any time I get to work a home game, it's awesome.
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I went to a very mean school and was bullied like crazy. I was a bit of a goth with purple hair, and I was also part of the drama group, which was filled with actors and writers and wasn't really accepted by the rest of the school.
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I look back on my work and I think, 'Oh, why didn't I do that differently?'
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From my earliest memories, my aunt was squirting out oil paint. I could just eat it. I would go from her studio and walk down to my father's house, and there he was, working in egg tempera.
