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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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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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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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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It's what I tell my daughters: Know that your birthright is to shine your light, and don't let anybody deny you of that right. Take responsibility for your life.
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I tend to think that there is a sophistication to everything at 'Saturday Night Live,' including the sketches.
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I support public and private partnerships whenever appropriate in order to achieve our goal of a prosperous and vibrant downtown.
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I was faced more with apathy than opposition.
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I would like to dive in Vietnam and Cambodia.
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Art will not only continue but will realise itself more and more. By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.
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Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?
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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.
