Kate Chopin Quotes
He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
 
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	In a movie, you're raw material, just a hue of some color and the director makes the painting.   
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	Through a painting we can see the whole world.   
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	I don't like getting out when I could be painting. And when I'm painting, I don't want anybody else around.   
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	I will keep painting until I die.   
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	I gave up painting by 16. I secretly thought I would have been Rembrandt by then.   
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	Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder.   
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	Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.   
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	There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.   
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	Hope is not a matter of age.   
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	One trap you can fall into when playing someone iconic is to end up doing everything in an iconic way, no matter how pedestrian or mundane that thing is.   
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	Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum.   
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	I have to take it as a given that I have got a certain ability to do something. I can be an artist, which is take something and transform it into another thing. I can just see something, and I can see my painting.   
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	I'd love my children no matter what.   
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	Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.   
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	I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.   
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	Cyber terrorists are no different from other terrorists: No matter where they hide, we will track them down and seek to bring them to the United States to face justice.   
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	You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.   
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	I'm more and more fascinated in my own work. I work from 10 A.M. until about 9 P.M., but it's not an obsession, it's a pleasure. There's never enough time.   
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	... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization.   
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	Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.   
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	Nobody really knows anybody completely, even if they've been married to 'em for 53 years, you know?   
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	He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					