Stuart Immonen Quotes
Birds are hard to draw. I read recently that Katsuhiro Otomo also says he has trouble drawing animals, and while it made me feel better, it didn't make it easier for me.
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In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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I've always been very open with my emotions. Actually, that's got me into a lot of trouble, too, in the past.
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My mother taught me to read.
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I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.
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I love to read, and I love Martina Cole.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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I tend to read non-fiction.
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I am not into the unrealistic realm of magic realism where birds talk.
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I read French much better than I speak.
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Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
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Things I used to get in trouble for writing at 'SNL,' suddenly other people like it.
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Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.
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Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
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The big thing is getting more infrastructure in place so that people can just pull up and get the fuel.
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The one sure way I can dishonor myself is by worrying about my reputation.
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I made the first 'Blumen' picture after looking at Robert Mapplethorpe's Pictures book. I was struck by how much freedom Mapplethorpe was able to extract from his model's restraint-that in tying up and cropping his models, he appears to be able to work with people as forms. I never thought about my flowers as related to his (which I saw as annoyingly erotic); I thought of them in relationship to bondage. I wanted to make the flowers more aggressive and ironic and less docile and sensual.
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I'm simply a businessman who has seen his share of failures and successes.
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Freedom of the press is the staff of life, for any vital democracy.
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Birds are hard to draw. I read recently that Katsuhiro Otomo also says he has trouble drawing animals, and while it made me feel better, it didn't make it easier for me.
