John Chamberlain Quotes
The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.
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The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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You have to believe that people don't want what you think they're going to like, you know? They want what you like. Once you start doing that, you actually start connecting with people.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I watch vlogs on YouTube. I watch Jenna Marbles a lot - I think she's really funny - and a lady called Daily Grace.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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If there are kids who want to follow in my footsteps, I'd say that my shoes are too big for them to fill! But their shoe size is just perfect.
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No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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When I first got to L.A., I thought every person in a limo was a star.
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I want the world to get a feel of me, showing them the way I am and the way I get down.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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The work of art is born of the artist in a mysterious and secret way. From him it gains life and being. Nor is its existence casual and inconsequent, but it has a definite and purposeful strength, alike in its material and spiritual life.
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What's odd is that nobody in my family is an artist. My cousins are, like, secretaries at law firms or nurses or just more blue collar. And I was in a baseball team. I used to be, like, a really big tomboy.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Like a researcher in his laboratory, I am the first spectator of the suggestions drawn from the materials. I unleash their expressive possibilities, even if I do not have a very clear idea of what I am going to do. As I go along with my work I formulate my thought, and from this struggle between what I want and the reality of the material - from this tension - is born an equilibrium.
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The good thing about being an artist, is it's a legitimate way of looking at things cross-eyed.
