Frank Auerbach Quotes
The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
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Even as a kid, I read 'Jung – Reflections and Individuation In Fairy Tales'; all the inner circle of Jung was a real huge thing for me.
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I hate it when guys wear really tight t-shirts. It's just so horrible, especially when you can see their bellies.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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Most presenters are consumed with preparing their content rapidly, which makes the material about their own narrow perspective.
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
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What people say isn't going to stop me. I have to do things for myself.
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
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Those who do not read criticism will rarely merit to be criticised.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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I use iTunes for downloading music, but I always decline when prompted to update this or that new version.
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You have to be talented. You have to work hard; you have to get the right pieces flowin' for you at the right time. And that's just what happened to me. I can't explain what happened.
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It's fun for me to couple emotion with comedy. I think it helps comedy. I think a lot of times American comedies don't play on emotion too much.
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Making a film is a challenge.
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I did make a solo album in my house when I was there. And because I was just afraid of flying, I wouldn't promote it, and I wouldn't tour. Actually, it wasn't a very good album anyway - it got buried underneath the pits of Hell, I suppose.
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It's all well and good to say that Germans were all responsible for the concentration camps, but I don't think they were. I think that was the work of a small group of fiends.
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Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently.
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The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.
