William Merritt Chase Quotes

I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

William Merritt Chase

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

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• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

  

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• I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.

  

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• For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.

  

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• I got a telegraph from my mother who said that my step-father had had a heart attack, come home and earn a living. So I went back to England and the only thing I knew to earn any cash was through hairdressing.

  

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• I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.

  

  Victor Ortiz
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• The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.

  

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• I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.

  

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• I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.

  

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• You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.

  

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• If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.

  

  Walter Kirn
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• Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

  

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• My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

  

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• Whenever someone says to me, 'Are you for or against Common Core,' the first question I ask is, 'What do you think Common Core is?' You will get a different answer from every single person. You will literally get a different answer.

  

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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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• I have always been small, so defenders have always been taller and tougher than me. So that's difficult for me; they foul me sometimes, but there you are - that's what the rules of the game are for.

  

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• Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

  

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• No person is just one particular emotion.

  

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• It is very common with artists who are of a generation that has already gone by to get overly concerned with, Oh my God I have to sell to the younger generation.

  

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• A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

  

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• I had accidentally gotten a laugh on a line in a play I was in during high school. I got hooked, but I had no idea I would ever be able to support myself by acting. I knew no one in the business. I was from the Midwest. No one within a radius of a thousand miles was doing anything like that.

  

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• I was never involved in any fights in high school. I'm glad I wasn't. I'm not very big, and I don't find great joy in cuts and bruises.

  

  John Bytheway
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• Snoop Dogg is hilarious. T.I. is really funny. Who else? 50 Cent is hilarious. Jay-Z is funny. I've met him, but he's funny in interviews. He was funny when I saw him, too. Ludacris is funny. Everybody is. Rappers are funny, a lot of them.

  

  Jay Pharoah
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• I am not sure that it is a bad thing to go to a school, as I did, where the boys threw things at me, and asked if there was nothing else I could do [but draw].

  

  William Merritt Chase
  • School
  • Education
  • Boys