Maurice de Vlaminck Quotes
The thought of becoming a painter never as much as occurred to me. I would have laughed out loud if someone had suggested that I choose painting as a career. To be a painter is not a business, no more than to be an artist, lover, racer, dreamer, or prizefighter. It is a gift of Nature, a gift..
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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Even when I get to the point where I am acting and performing, where I want to be with my career, I'm never going to think of anyone as lower than me. Everyone's the celebrity of their own life, you know?
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When you watch the sitcoms that were the big hits when I was growing up, TV was still just TV. It was allowed to just be TV. There were three channels that were competing for the whole family and you couldn't take your business elsewhere.
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'Twin Peaks' is the one thing in my career that I can really look back on, that I really respect and love and honor as something that's different. The one thing that I can hang onto.
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
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I have never broken a contract in my career.
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Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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I do that mostly because I believe that the fantasy business is in terrible trouble right now, for several reasons, not the least of which being the almost Democrat vs. Republican mentality of readers on the Internet.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.
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When people take advantage of you and make a business out of it, that's not nice.
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I just lucked into this weird, little obscure cameoesque film career. I just love being a part of film history.
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Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.
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But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
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Human nature stays the same, the one thing that stays constant, like death and taxes. And people still want good stories!
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The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
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I've got a really hard election. If you had a really hard election and it was after Labor Day would you go to North Carolina to a bunch of parties and glad-handing or would you stay home and work as hard as you know how to convince Missourians they should rehire you?
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When you lose things like football, which is the game I love - and this is the most important thing in my life - it really puts everything in perspective.
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Lots of special interests play the immigrant blame game every day because they like things the way they are and don't see a need for change.
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The thought of becoming a painter never as much as occurred to me. I would have laughed out loud if someone had suggested that I choose painting as a career. To be a painter is not a business, no more than to be an artist, lover, racer, dreamer, or prizefighter. It is a gift of Nature, a gift..
