Wallace Tripp Quotes
The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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It didn’t matter that they were terrible at being parents; they were also very rich, which meant they could pay other people to love Alec.
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Sustained exhaustion is not a rite of passage. It's a mark of stupidity.
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We value feeling over knowing, because you can't prove something that hasn't been done before.
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I'm from Texas, and I would love to do an old-fashioned gun-slinging Western.
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My fans are always extremely loyal.
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My dark little secret is that I don't actually believe many people in the art world have much feeling for art.
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When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Certain projects find you at the right time.
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Every time I sit with our general manager at a baseball game, and there's number-cruncher and statistician guy - I'm sitting around - they start talking about stuff, and I say, 'What's that? I've never heard of that one before.'
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...it seems to be a law of the human constitution that those that deserve shall not have, and those that do not deserve shall get everything that is worth having. It is a sufficiently crazy arrangement, it seems to me.
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I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.
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I am still in love with couture because it is just two months from drawing pad to runway so everything on the catwalk is hot from the oven.
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Machine translation of signs, text, and speech brings down language barriers and facilitates ever more cross-cultural meetings of like minds.
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The first ten thousand drawings are the hardest. Put another way, you have ten thousand bad drawings within and should expel them as quickly as possible.
