Jacob Epstein Quotes
My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
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Money opens up wonderful worlds of possibilities.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I would like to see America some day.
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The first decent building I did with my own practice was a chapel in Taiwan.
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.
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Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.
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Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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Anyone who's seen me before knows that when it's fight time, I don't have much to say.
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I have a sweet tooth for reading, so books migrate to my zip code en mass.
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
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I'm a believer in the polls, by the way. Rarely do you see a poll that's very far off.
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'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.
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It's human nature to start taking things for granted again when danger isn't banging loudly on the door.
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My parents did not discourage me but could not understand how I could make a living by art. Their idea of an artist was a person who was condemned to starvation.
