Camille Pissarro Quotes
Work is a wonderful regulator of mind and body. I forget all sorrow, grief, bitterness, and I even ignore them altogether in the joy of working.
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So people think I'm lying about my age all the time? It's the records that are wrong. I've never told anyone how old I am. The minute they ask me, I say 'That's none of your business.' So that means I've never once lied about my age. Now that's true!
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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I started 20 years without missing a race and ESPN started broadcasting on the air waves.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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The utter incompetence of the U.N. is literally incomprehensible.
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With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on.
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We have taken a situation in the U.K. because of concerns, for example, over immigration and other things, so Britain now is on a path out of Europe.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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A Grammy is really nice, but having lots of fans is really nice, too. I think just getting a record out is a success on its own.
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Work is a wonderful regulator of mind and body. I forget all sorrow, grief, bitterness, and I even ignore them altogether in the joy of working.
