Paul Kane Quotes

Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

Paul Kane

• Balance
• Painting
• Reassuring
• Consoling

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• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.

  

  Kara Walker
  • People
  • History
  • Black

• There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Nothing
  • Vanity

• Whenever I don't' have to wear makeup, it's a good day.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Good
  • Day
  • Makeup

• I love auditioning. Since 'The Notebook' and 'Wedding Crashers,' I don't have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don't audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Character
  • Hate
  • Nervous

• I think humans are fascinating in general. We're so weird. We do so many quirky things, and we don't even know it. There's just so many layers upon layers of nuances in everything we do, and the most fun part as an actor is trying to get into all those nuances, whether they're conscious or unconscious.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • Think

• The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• I've been very lucky and been able to work, as an actress, but I'm definitely a working actress. I get a script, I audition, and then I pray.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Work
  • Working
  • Lucky

• It's almost always possible to be honest and positive.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Always
  • Positive
  • Possible

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• The subject of Stalin's death permitted a rare blend of invective and speculation-both Hearst papers, as I recall, ran cartoons of Stalin being rebuffed at the gates of Heaven, where Hearst had no correspondents-and I have seldom enjoyed a week of newspaper reading more.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Death
  • Reading
  • Heaven

• No one ever died from smoking marijuana, but millions of people have died by believing politicians. So why is marijuana outlawed while politicians are still legal?

  

  Harry Browne
  • People
  • Why
  • Smoking

• The guns are turning away from Europe and Russia and Iran and Iraq and they're turning to us.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Guns
  • Turn To

• The debt limits have to come down. The whole world of debt has to be changed as far as this country is concerned. We have to create jobs and we have to create them rapidly because if we don't things are just going to head in a direction that's going to be almost impossible to recover from.

  

  Donald Trump
  • World
  • Country

• Honest talk about the deficit is risky. Voters are more enthusiastic about the abstract notion of deficit reduction than about the painful details of accomplishing it.

  

  Christina Romer

• You can't tell an 18-year-old to keep it down and turn off Britney Spears or whatever it is that they listen to.

  

  Mary Gaitskill

• When I want to support a film starring actors I like, I purchase several tickets at the box office - even if I can't stay for the movie.

  

  Gayle King
  • Movie
  • Support

• My mom was Sicilian, my dad was Sicilian. Mom was a great cook, but all the women were.

  

  Chazz Palminteri
  • Great
  • Women
  • Dad

• We write when the time comes, and we try to be exciting, and stuff that excites us usually makes the record.

  

  M. Shadows
  • Time

• My boy is a mean kid. I came home the other day and saw him taping worms to the sidewalk, he sits there and watches the birds get hernias. Well, only last Christmas I gave him a B-B gun and he gave me a sweatshirt with a bulls-eye on the back. I told my kids, "Someday, you'll have kids of your own." One of them said, "So will you."

  

  Jack Roy
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Boy

• I think recharging is important, absolutely. Every now and then, you need maybe a couple of weeks to just chill out and let your emotions balance themselves out a little bit.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Important
  • Couple
  • Balance

• The Industrial Revolution caused a centuries-long shift in power to the West; globalization is now shifting the balance again.

  

  Dennis C. Blair
  • Long
  • Power
  • Balance

• So if I keep making mistakes on Broadway or tape or film, producing, directing or acting, I can go along and do it - so long as I'm not investing too much capital in these things.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Long
  • Acting
  • Mistakes

• Painting is a matter of finding the right balance between consoling and reassuring the eye and challenging and disturbing the eye.

  

  Paul Kane
  • Balance
  • Painting
  • Reassuring