Albert Pinkham Ryder Quotes
The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.
Quotes to Explore
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
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I guess I crave stability.
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The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short, it was so beautifully written, and it made me laugh. I thought if I wanted to play a character, this would be it.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States - old as well as new - North as well as South.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
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The best Christmas present I got from my husband was a week to do whatever I wanted.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
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I understand a ship to be made for the carrying and preservation of the cargo, and so long as the ship can be saved, with the cargo, it should never be abandoned. This Union likewise should never be abandoned unless it fails and the possibility of its preservation shall cease to exist, without throwing passengers and cargo overboard.
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We have deep depth.
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The world cannot live on 140 characters alone.
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The best way to learn how to work with actors is to have had experience of trying to act yourself - it will teach you humility if nothing else.
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Son, when you participate in sporting events, its not whether you win or loose, its how drunk you get.
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All the best things are seen first of all at a far distance.
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The best test to know whether an entity is real or fictional is the test of suffering. A nation cannot suffer, feel pain or fear, or has no consciousness. Even if it loses a war, the soldier suffers, the civilians suffer, but the nation cannot suffer. Similarly, a corporation cannot suffer, when it loses its value, it doesn't suffer. All these things, they're fictions. If people bear in mind this distinction, it could improve the way we treat one another and the other animals. It's not a good idea to cause suffering to real entities in the service of fictional stories.
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The artist needs but a roof, a crust of bread, and his easel, and all the rest God gives him in abundance. He must live to paint and not paint to live.
