Sean Scully Quotes
I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed – the language, the country – but it is up to me to adapt.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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One of the problems with defending free speech is you often have to defend people that you find to be outrageous and unpleasant and disgusting.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Hold the door for a lady. Wait until a lady is out of the elevator.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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People don't slip. Time catches up with them.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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It's not that I am not emotional, but I am extremely secure and curb it, as I am afraid to let go and be broken. So, I have cultivated myself to be detached in life, specially where movies are concerned.
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The universe, when you leave it alone, is going to be beautiful.
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I think maybe because I do other things and they mean as much to me as movie acting, it takes the onus off me. It's not the end of the world if I can't get a film job, or if a movie doesn't turn out well - even though I don't like it when that happens.
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I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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My life changed completely. It's crazy now. It's kind of gone from striving and wondering and being confused and being lost to just feeling like the most blessed person in the world - just happy to wake up every day, happy to get on a plane every time. Just couldn't be happier with life, really.
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My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.
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I love the '60s - that's my comfort zone as far as dressing goes.
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I am a happy person and I choose to be a positive person. I think some people think my life has been tragic and there have been these horrible dramas but things really have been, and are, fine.
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When we talk about music, we talk about our reaction to it. One person might say that music is so poetic, while another says it's all mathematics. Yet another might say it's about sensuality, and so on. That's all true. But music is not just one of these things. It's everything all at once.
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I've bought clothes based on record covers. Particularly from the formative music that turned me onto it in the first place when I was a kid, with the Beatles and the Small Faces. A lot of those Sixties soul artists were in really sharp sharkskin or mohair suits, and Motown artists looked amazing.
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The brick of my life is music, but the mortar is faith.
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I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.
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I was always artistic - right from childhood - but my love of painting came a bit later. It followed my love of music.
