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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The reality is that not only were we massively hit in 2008 when the bubble burst, and then we realized how deep the social gap, the economic gap in the world is between the super rich and the poor; also, we realized how impacted the environment has been. So there's been a physical consequence of that.
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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 want to top expectations. I want to blow you away.
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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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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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It is the mainspring of life, courage. And courage has many faces.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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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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My daughter Lila loves the smell of gasoline - she always says, 'Mummy, keep the door open,' when I'm filling up the car. I've heard it is one of the most preferred scents in the world - maybe that's something to study for my next fragrance!
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I never intended to box forever, and always planned to move on to do other things.
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When I consider how my light is spent,Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,And that one talent which is death to hideLodged with me useless.
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Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher.
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If I can't get the girl, at least give me more money.
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I am done with great things and big things, great institutions and big success, and I am for those tiny, invisible molecular moral forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capillary oozing of water, yet which if you give them time, will rend the hardest monuments of man's pride.
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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.
