John French Sloan Quotes
Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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I love to write.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country - they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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Sadly, in the name of progress, we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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If people want to find me, they can. They'll see a middle-aged woman wandering around the grocery store, looking to see what to buy for dinner.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
Garry Kasparov -
My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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We must live, you used to say, as if we were never going to die. - Didn't you know that's how everyone lives, including those obsessed with Death?
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Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.
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In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
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Do you know where you going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? Where are you going to? Do you know?
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No one goes through life thinking that theyre the best friend of the lead character.
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Every good picture leaves the painter eager to start again, unsatisfied, inspired by the rich mine in which he is working, hoping for more energy, more vitality, more time - condemned to painting for life.
