John French Sloan Quotes
The idea of taking up art as a calling, a profession, is a mirage. Art enriches life. It makes life worth living. But to make a living at it-that idea is incompatible with making art.
John French Sloan
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell
Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease.
Karel Capek
My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
Kary Mullis
I came to Hollywood and I loved it. It was a great time, but in my head I was still elsewhere, in Europe. I believed in a certain cinema, which I still do believe in - a certain European cinema - and as a young woman being in America, I thought I was being taken away from that.
Valeria Golino
Spacewalking is a little like rock climbing in that everything, including and especially oneself, must be tethered or docked at all times. If you forget to tether a tool, it's gone. Ditto yourself.
Mary Roach
Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
Karen Thompson Walker
I was put under contract. A major studio. I got nominated for an Academy Award. Isn't that ridiculous? I mean, at the age of 18!
Angela Lansbury
The idea of taking up art as a calling, a profession, is a mirage. Art enriches life. It makes life worth living. But to make a living at it-that idea is incompatible with making art.
John French Sloan