Nancy Spero Quotes
I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.
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We're all concerned about sports rights being so expensive. Obviously, we are funded by the licence fee payers, so it's not always easy to compete with those who can get greater revenue.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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Pleasure does not equal happiness; it's part of happiness.
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Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever.
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A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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The Price Is Right can really get me going.
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And that's what art is, a form in which people can reflect on who we are as human beings and come to some understanding of this journey we are on.
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I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.
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There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.
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I think every boy would quite like to play James Bond!
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Keep your enemies in front of you.
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Living in the projects helped me with this role.
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I've always been the type of person that thinks, 'If someone else can do it, so can I.'
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Love is the hardest habit to break, and the most difficult to satisfy.
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Is it or is it not ethical to create an embryo, and to create a person for the purpose of getting an organ to give to someone else? Your knee-jerk reaction is 'absolutely not;' but you need the ethical analysis of that to show why and how that is something that you need to stay away from.
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Thought is a strenuous art - few practice it, and then only at rare times.
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Tasting failure, even when you truly believe in a project, is a critical part of the growth process.
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I write music every day.
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In French literature, you can choose a la carte; in Spanish literature, there is only the set meal.
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There are a lot of things and in order to be at the top and maintain your focus you have to have something that motivates you. For me, it was what I perceived as a lack of respect from the boxing world as well as the media, which made me want to work so hard and be great.
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I suppose I felt doomed to be an artist early on because of the way I drew all over the books that I needed for school, from ancient history to math. I was more interested in drawing in the margins than actually doing the work.
