Willem de Kooning Quotes
If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
Quotes to Explore
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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Loser lit antiheroes aren't well intentioned or earnest; they don't care whether you like them or not. They're self-mocking, ironic and inventive; they narrate their downfalls with manic wordplay, rampant metaphors, wisecracks, and escalating flights of spleen-fueled lyricism.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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You can't make a living as a playwright. You can barely scrape by.
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The best way to get students involved in science and want to follow either science careers or incorporate it in their lives or to achieve science literacy is to expose them to the various jobs in STEM. It's broad from biologists to electricians to nanotechnologists to building fusion engines. It's a wide range of things.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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There was a lot of hype about social media in President Obama's first campaign. It was important, but it wasn't as important as I think people let on.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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I think there's always been singers like that and i've done my fair share of cheese as well.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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My dad is an English teacher, and my mom is a textiles artist. My parents made my sisters and me feel that if we wanted to pursue something creative, it could be done. They've always been supportive of everything from the beginning.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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Being able to laugh is sexy in a man or woman.
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I would love to have a go at a band or some form of music one day.
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I always felt that it was my job to try to help other people get it and deal with it.
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The spirit of God has the habit of taking the words of Jesus out of their scriptural setting and putting them into the setting of our personal lives.
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As long as the fans keep coming out, we're gonna keep making records and keep being there.
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I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was.
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Now you can leave home at any time you like.Your mother comes down and finds a picture of the Eiffel Tower on her plate. And she says, 'Oh! Rosemary's gone to Paris. No wonder the bathroom was so tidy.' And nobody minds. But in my day, to go abroad with all those wicked Frenchmen, what would become of them? So no-one ever went anywhere.
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If I stretch my arms and wonder where my fingers are - that is all the space I need as a painter.
