Nell Irvin Painter Quotes

Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

Nell Irvin Painter

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• I don't function well in chaos, whether it be my sheets or the dishwasher.

  

  Gabrielle Union
  • Chaos
  • Well
  • Dishwasher

• I'm an honorary old Jewish lady of the West Village.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell

• There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Hope
  • Sun
  • Place

• Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts!

  

  Oral Roberts
  • God
  • Faith
  • Child

• People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• There are loads of amazing actors in the UK and only 2% of them are in work, which is crazy.

  

  Yasmin Paige
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Crazy

• When I was doing theater, I was very successful at believing that I was great, God's gift to the theater.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Theater
  • God`s gift

• And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea, But never a moment ceased the fight of the one and the fifty-three.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Sea
  • Fight
  • Sunset

• Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.

  

  Tim Ferriss
  • Art
  • Learn
  • Messaging

• He who knows Love becomes Love, and he knows All beings are himself, twin-born of Love.

  

  Elsa Barker
  • Love
  • Knows
  • Born

• I think I have come across as "unafraid" because I really cannot control what comes through me in my writing.

  

  Erin McKeown
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Unafraid

• “Do Chinese dragons even eat people?” “She lives in the Bay Area,” I say severely. “She eats a Westernized diet.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • She
  • Chinese
  • Eat

• My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.

  

  Gary Lutz
  • Writing
  • Space
  • Careers

• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Pay

• It's not so surprising that there are more women in metal bands. And they're not just fronting them. There are drummers and guitar players, bass players.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Surprising
  • Guitar-Players
  • Metal Band

• Endure pain, find joy, and make your own meaning, because the universe certainly isn't going to supply it.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Pain
  • Joy
  • Universe

• Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.

  

  Nell Irvin Painter
  • Satisfying
  • Absorbing