Alice Neel Quotes
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.Alice Neel
Quotes to Explore
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
Mac Thornberry -
It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
E. O. Wilson -
Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
Wayne Dyer -
Everything has a purpose or premise. Every second of our life has its own premise, whether or not we are conscious of it at the time. That premise may be as simple as breathing or as complex as a vital emotional decision, but it is always there.
Lajos Egri -
My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
Natascha McElhone -
I have to say that getting to tackle Maria in 'The Sound of Music' at Carnegie Hall was surreal. When I heard my voice, it was all I could do to keep myself from doing a British accent and sound like Julie Andrews!
Laura Osnes
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I've always found it very sanitary to be broke.
Orson Welles -
Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
Nargis Fakhri -
I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!
Olivia Williams -
A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
Damien Hirst -
My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
Zoe Wanamaker -
I grew up doing gymnastics. It requires discipline, eating right, getting sleep, lots of sacrifice. But the pros outweigh the sacrifice.
Kacy Catanzaro
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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
Legolas is fantastic to dress up in - of course he is - and I've had the best time playing him.
Orlando Bloom -
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.
Vince Lombardi -
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas -
A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
Daisaku Ikeda -
Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
Hanya Yanagihara
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi Berra -
I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
Ziggy Marley -
I believe in naturalistic lighting, which isn't to say natural light.
Rachel Morrison -
I love rock n' rollers.
Carlene Carter -
A total reverse of fortune, coming unawares upon a man who 'stood in high degree,' happy and apparently secure,-such was the tragic fact to the mediaeval mind. It appealed strongly to common human sympathy and pity; it startled also another feeling, that of fear. It frightened men and awed them. It made them feel that man is blind and helpless, the plaything of an inscrutable power, called by the name of Fortune or some other name,-a power which appears to smile on him for a little, and then on a sudden strikes him down in his pride.
Andrew Cecil Bradley -
I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.
Alice Neel