Stephen Sprouse Quotes
That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.
Quotes to Explore
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Sometimes I draw blanks.
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Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.
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I don't know that I have any role models now that are fixed. Definitely my mom - she's the coolest. She's worked really hard her whole life and I just think she's got a great attitude. Moms just know so much it's so silly.
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I tried to, from my very early years, I've been an inveterate movie goer and still am and I, I love the medium. So what I, what I draw and what I'm still doing, is part of that particular orientation.
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These beautiful models were walking around in the room, and then suddenly this woman who wouldn’t be considered beautiful was revealed. It was about trying to trap something that wasn’t conventionally beautiful to show that beauty comes from within.
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If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.
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Examples of exaggeration can be found in almost any advertising medium. The use of the superlative is altogether too prevalent. 'The finest,' 'the best,' 'the greatest,' 'the purest,' 'the most economical,' and so on ad infinitum, are hurled at the public everywhere. Surely not all products of the same class can be the best or the finest.
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I don't apply [being a role model] to the choices I make. I feel like a role model is not necessarily someone you want to imitate, just someone you admire.
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The last four weeks where we have gone unbeaten, albeit a draw against the Bulls, have been crucial for us as a team and have given us a chance in this competition.
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Ah! Portraiture, portraiture with the thought, the soul of the model in it, that is what I think must come.
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I draw like other people bite their nails.
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I can only draw what I see.
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I never draw except with brush and paint.
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We still need to decide what we can afford. Where do we draw the line?
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When you're a musician and you go out onstage, and you're someone who loves attention, you are going to become a role model to some extent.
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I see how 14-year old girls react to me and I think I'm a good role model. Rockstar maybe not, but I'm willing to play with it for a little while, until my hair gets gray.
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The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs to do. Writers, living or dead, still guide me in many ways.
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Science manipulates things and gives up living in them. It makes its own limited models of things; operating upon these indices or variables to effect whatever transformations are permitted by their definition, it comes face to face with the real world only at rare intervals. Science is and always will be that admirably active, ingenious, and bold way of thinking whose fundamental bias is to treat everything as though it were an object-in-general - as though it meant nothing to us and yet was predestined for our own use.
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One of the most insidious and nefarious properties of scientific models is their tendency to take over, and sometimes supplant, reality.
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One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.
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People always come up to me now and say, 'Watchmen' is the best superhero movie ever made.' I'm always saying 'That's super cool. That's nice of you to say.' But it happens now, more and more and more than it did when it first came out.
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When someone is telling you what to do all the time, anything you do of your own volition becomes a protest, doesn’t it?
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That's how I taught myself how to draw - tracing the ads and petting new clothes on the models.
