Jamie Wyeth Quotes
Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
Quotes to Explore
-
Being flown to the U.S. to meet Sofia Coppola is really exciting. I was freaking out. I'm a little nervous, as I don't want to muck it up I want to do my best.
-
My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
-
There is no diplomacy like candor.
-
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
-
The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
-
It was never about winning medals or being famous.
-
I started to get very well recognized in the early seventies as the only man in the United States who had been elected three times to the board of NOW in New York City.
-
On the face of it, China has won the Olympics. But it is not China that has won, but the Communist party. The Chinese people have lost.
-
Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
-
There is no buzz like performing for a live audience.
-
Well it was sent to me, well because almost everything that is written in Baltimore is sent to me. And David Simon, who was a writer for the Baltimore Sun, spent one year following the homicide squad in Baltimore and he chronicled that period of time.
-
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
-
I am happy in Paris.
-
One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
-
When it gets down to it, basketball is basketball.
-
I'm very bad at ending sentences. A lot times I just want to say, 'That's the end of my sentence. I have nothing more to say.'
-
When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
-
You've got to use your celebrity for good stuff, not evil. I think it's lame when people act as if they're better than everyone!
-
I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.
-
I love a girl with a sense of humor. Someone who can make me laugh and that I can get along with and talk with and who is just sweet overall, inside and out.
-
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;It rains, and the wind is never weary;The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,But at every gust the dead leaves fall,And the day is dark and dreary.
-
Being a painter is the only profession where you have to stand there with all your shortcomings on the wall.
