Neil Welliver Quotes
Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.
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The first time I thought I should be an actor was in school. I thought, 'At least this is something for which I won't have to study.' But I've realised that an actor needs to be constantly unsure about what he's doing and about what's going on around him. The moment you think you've nailed it, you're dead.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
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I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
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There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
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TV is starting to become such a collective experience again. People are watching it on their own time, rather than being on a schedule. Netflix offers the easy opportunity to watch as much as you can.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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Growing old gracefully used to begin at about 35, but today women prefer to 'stay young gratefully' with thanks to designers, beauticians and plastic surgeons.
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To have the regard of one's peers is immensely moving.
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When I first started, I didn't really know how to structure a play.
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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
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The only thing we lack for even faster growth is more capital.
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I am not a man of etiquette, I don't know manners. I simply call a spade a fucking spade, because that's what it is.
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The poet is a god, or, the young poet is a god. The old poet is a tramp.
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I’ve lived here for 20 years and I have been a citizen for 10 years. I hope I am a good one. I know I don’t take it for granted. I feel I am an awfully lucky person to be an American and I think that every naturalized American and every person born in this land should kneel on his knees every morning and utter a prayer for being an American.
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Goodness has no opposite. Most of us consider goodness as the opposite of the bad or evil and so throughout history in any culture goodness has been considered the other face of that which is brutal. So man has always struggled against evil in order to be good; but goodness can never come into being if there is any form of violence or struggle.
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Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.
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Information should never be used as a weapon on a team.
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For a long time, I felt like my identity was to fight. My identity was to be a world champion. That almost defined me.
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While I'm leader, nothing will be off limits - there will not be one policy, one rule, one way of working which cannot be changed.
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The only thing in life that really gives me any peace is just being lost in the process of creating something, whether it's the film or painting and drawing, which has been a big part of my life, for a long time.
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Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the associations of his growing years. Hardly ever, indeed, no matter how much money there be in his pocket, can he ever learn to dress like a gentleman-born. The merchants offer their wares as eagerly to him as to the veriest swell, but he simply cannot buy the right things.
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Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.
