Alice Neel Quotes
The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
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Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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The major source of photochemical smog - petroleum-fueled vehicles - can be replaced by emission-free electric vehicles.
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Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
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Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.
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Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.
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All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
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There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.
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The government must adopt a rights-based approach that speaks to the needs and aspirations of surrogate mothers, children born out of surrogacy, and all individuals who want access to altruistic surrogacy services.
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When I'm writing, I'm trying to access my subconscious and turn off my conscious brain. I use my conscious for research, but when I'm actually writing, I'm trying to get into a place where I'm tapping into the deeper, darker elements of what's going on.
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A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
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The sky isn't falling. We're not going to have more meteors hit because of sequestration.
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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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When we blather about trivial things, we ourselves become trivial, for our attention gets taken up with trivialities. You become what you give your attention to.
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Sometimes leaders slide from the role of freedom fighter into the presidency, which they may be unsuited for, but everyone accepts it until they hit the bump in the road.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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Having done a lot of magazines, I'm very curious how big magazines handle big stories, and I was very curious to see how 'Time' and 'Newsweek' would handle 9/11. And I was basically pretty disappointed to see that they had chosen to show the photo we'd already seen a million times, which was basically the moment of impact.
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The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.
