Winslow Homer Quotes
When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
Quotes to Explore
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I fought the best; I've never been afraid of anyone.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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The death tax robs parents of the opportunity to pass something along to their children, and it is responsible for destroying a lot of family-owned businesses.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
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My granny was very concerned that we weren't baptised - Mum had been desperate to escape her own Catholic upbringing. But Granny thought we were blighted. Whenever we turned up at her house, she would flick holy water - from the font she kept by the door - over us, in the hope that it would save us from damnation.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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Actors, after all, dream.
Nastassja Kinski -
We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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Beaujolais is so underrated.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
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The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
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Every path leads homeward, every step is birth, every step is death, every grave is mother.
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I'm just trying to give the world something pure for a change. We'll see what happens.
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Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.
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Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.'
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When you paint, try to put down exactly what you see. Whatever else you have to offer will come out anyway.
