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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It is so difficult in the world for people to find love, true love.
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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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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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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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With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.
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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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I will never censor myself to please anyone.
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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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The thing is to rely on God. The time will come when you will regard all this misery as a small price to pay for having been brought to that dependence. Meanwhile, the trouble is that relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing has yet been done.
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Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.
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Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'
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These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go for around $1,200, they look at me like I'm a flesh-eating virus.
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The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.
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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.
