Paul Gauguin Quotes
A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
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Being famous gets me good concert tickets, good tables in restaurants, good seats at sporting events and that's really about it.
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I've had situations where producers would be like, 'Could you meet me? Take the train; don't tell your parents.'
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My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.
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I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He's the biggest. He's like an Elvis in this business, but no, he's never been the rebel.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.
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People hear the soul, black influence in my voice. I grew up listening to CKLW and all the black stations like WLBS.
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A woman would pitch a joke. Nothing. Then a guy would pitch it and everybody would laugh.
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The one thing that would utterly destroy the new capitalism is the serious practice of deferred gratification.
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So far as living instruments of labour are concerned, for instance horses, their reproduction is timed by nature itself. Their average lifetime as instruments of labour is determined by the laws of nature. As soon as this term has expired they must be replaced by new ones. A horse cannot be replaced piecemeal; it must be replaced by another horse.
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'When God calls a man or woman, what they will eat, what they will use and everything they need for their journey will be provided abundantly by God.'
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Safety should be a birthright.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.
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I like a girl with natural beauty.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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As long as a house is like yours, and as long as you work together with your brothers, not a house in the world will be able to compete with you, to cause you harm or to take advantage of you, for together you can undertake and perform more than any house in the world.
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I don't watch the news because I wouldn't leave the house. I would not leave the house.
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Mo: My sister-in-law had her baby! I'm an aunt! My brother's a father! My mother's a grandma! My dad's a...Sydney: I think I can generalize from there.
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A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets.
