Jamie Wyeth Quotes
Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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When I make a film, I am hoping to reinvent the genre a little bit. I just do it my way. I make my own little Quentin versions of them... I consider myself a student of cinema. It's almost like I am going for my professorship in cinema, and the day I die is the day I graduate. It is a lifelong study.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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I caught up on a lot of just domestic normal everyday stuff, and grew up a lot, and went to therapy, and did a lot of contemplating and figuring things out. I needed to just strip everything away and figure out who I am and get to know myself, as cheesy as that sounds.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
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A musician is a professional, whether he or she is successful or not. The profession itself must be regarded as a stable job.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.
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You just go for it and see what works. There are no rules.
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Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
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It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
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In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are.
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Art was a way of life in my family. My grandfather, N.C. Wyeth, who died a year before I was born, had been a prominent painter. So was my father, Andrew. My two aunts and two of my uncles also earned a living as painters.
