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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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The poverty program was not designed to eliminate poverty.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and boy it'll wake them up.
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My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
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I am so personally hurt with losses. I really am an elephant like that. I don't forget. I can still feel the pain and sting of it (last year's loss to Tennessee). So when you consider the length of the season and when you can be a little tired, I am not. I am just fueled by what could have been.
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I didn't realize it at the time, but writing obituaries was one of best jobs that I've ever had. After all, it's the only time that someone will ever laminate my work and put it in their Bible. Plus, let's be honest, writing obits in Sarasota is a very busy job. The old saying was that old people lived in Miami, but their parents lived in Sarasota.
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I just aspire to be the best I can be. I want to work hard and set one goal at a time for myself.
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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.
