Sam Francis Quotes
The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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How do you play 'righteous'? Do you just kind of stand up straighter? What does that mean as an actor? You don't really play a quality.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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I never left doo wop.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.
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When I got my Oprah money, the first thing I bought was a really nice electronic bidet toilet seat.
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My father was born in Newark, New Jersey, and my mother was born in Philadelphia. They both went to Stanford for grad school and met there.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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The challenge we have in the war on terrorism is looking around for those pieces that matter and trying to fit them together.
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Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."
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The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
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If I have to work hard or think hard or just copy somebody else that's doing it better - whatever it takes, I'm going to find that solution. That's the drive that keeps me going.
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The personal lives of painters are tragic and inevitable and do not explain the artist. For the artist is his work and no longer human.
