Neil Welliver Quotes
I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.
Quotes to Explore
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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I can tell you I'm not exactly sure why I teach. I think a lot of it is just it's the sense of community. A real desire to be involved both with people older than myself and people younger.
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My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.
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Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.
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A true champion can adapt to anything.
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Some people don't understand that I - as an artist and a person - I want to make my own decisions and create the music that I personally like.
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
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People were stopping me on the street to say, 'Oh my God, it's Crazy Eyes!' Which is kind of a funny thing to have people shout at you on the street.
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Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
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I think we brothers realised his loss more and more as we grew older. We actually grew closer after his death.
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The captain of the Hampshire grenadiers...has not been useless to the historian of the Roman Empire.
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The reading public isn't born that doesn't think foreigners are either funny or faintly sinister.
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The battle of getting better is never ending.
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I know how influential I am over my fans and followers. I feel like everything I do, my hair color, my makeup, I always start these huge trends, and I don't even realize what I'm capable of.
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I didn't want to get married, and I didn't want kids - I knew I wanted to act.
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It is such a luxury to open a new book that's highly recommended by friends - either an inspirational yet humorously self-deprecating memoir, or a page-turning piece of fiction.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I am not unaware how unpopular on this floor are the sentiments I am about to advocate.
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A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.
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If you listen to one of my albums, you can tell I do a lot of different things. In the case of 'Vincent', I thought of his picture 'Starry Night.' It was a beautiful road-map for a song. I used a lot of imagery from that painting.
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I have an amazing wife and three beautiful children, and that certainly makes you less obsessive about your art as a musician - which I've always felt was more like painting than anything.
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I paint very directly. I go from top to bottom. When I get to the floor, the painting is finished.
