Will Cotton Quotes
When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.
Quotes to Explore
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
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Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.
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History is a race between education and catastrophe.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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I'm a sucker for any band named after a work of literature. Los de Abajo take their name from Mariano Azuela's famous novel 'The Underdogs,' and that says a lot about who they are and the music they make.
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I am drawn to intimate, often uncomfortable portraits of a woman persevering and awakening.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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Enthusiasm is the greatest asset you can possess, for it can take you further than money, power or influence.
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Meeting Helen Mirren was a fabulous experience. I had played it out in my mind, how I should greet her when we would be introduced. But the way we met was funny because I just didn't recognise her!
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I was very lucky. My parents raised me in such a way that it never occurred to me that I wasn't equal.
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All I had to do was go out and perform. One of the hardest things was doing those back flips, where you had to jump up and land on the top rope. It's precision movement.
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The truth is that my work - I was going to say my mission - is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.
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I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.
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When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.
