Arshile Gorky Quotes
You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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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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Every once in a while I feel the tremendous force of the novel. But it does not stay with me.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.
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Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.
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I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go.
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I believe in naturalistic lighting, which isn't to say natural light.
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I'm not saying that McDonald's gift certificates caused the obesity epidemic, but in retrospect, the timing is kind of suspicious.
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Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.
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After September 11, I don't think people really believe things like this are all that important.
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My biggest fear is the people I love not knowing how much I love them. I just want to remind people all the time.
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The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.
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"I've always thought there was this underlying thing in Paul's "Get Back." When we were in the studio recording it, every time he sang the line "Get back to where you once belonged," he'd look at Yoko."
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If I take a lick from so and so, I'm not going to get that many variations from it, because their phrases are just based on a scale. That's why I say Wes Montgomery has more substance than others. I find myself listening to the older players. You see one bar of theirs and you can get one hundred more licks out of it.
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I don't want to build a bunch of homes and sit on them.
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God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.
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I dropped out of high school and I couldn't go to college 'cause I wasn't smart enough, so I'd resigned myself to loading trucks and playing punk rock on the weekends.
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You know how fussy and particular I am in painting. I am ever removing the paint and repainting the spot until I am completely exhausted.
