Alice Neel Quotes
The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.Alice Neel
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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.
Fiona Dourif -
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.
J. D. Salinger -
Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
W. Clement Stone -
It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
Maia Mitchell -
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.
Rachel Corrie -
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.
Gary Krist
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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.
Iris Johansen -
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler -
Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
E. O. Wilson -
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
That's the kind of motif I bring to the books - that people take charge of their own lives.
Maeve Binchy -
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.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
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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.
Kapil Sibal -
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.
Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club -
A nation must be embraced, rehabilitated and expressed as a tangible sign of human creativity and as an integral element of mankind's heritage.
Abdelaziz Bouteflika -
So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
T. J. Perkins -
Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.
Abraham Joshua Heschel -
I like to be asked about the projects I'm working on. I like to be asked about the books I'm reading, the things I'm interested in, what's exciting me right now, or even politics. Sometimes that's fun.
Emily Ratajkowski
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The American people and the Government at Washington may refuse to recognize it for a time but the inexorable logic of events will force it upon them in the end; that the war now being waged in this land is a war for and against slavery.
Frederick Douglass -
Anything that you can become obsessed with, and you do so much that you don't do the things you need to do with family, friends, school, job - that can be an addiction. And texting absolutely can qualify.
Dale Archer -
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt -
A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom - he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.
E. B. White -
The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.
Alice Neel