Chantal Joffe Quotes
I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.
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The '70s were a time of turmoil and turnover. But I grew up here. I always wanted to play here.
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When my wife passed, I stopped doing interviews and I stopped doing meet-and-greets, mostly because I sort of became this suicide ambassador. Everybody wanted to tell me their story.
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I wanted to be famous. I wanted people to talk about me.
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I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.
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No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.
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I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniseries out of it and I wanted to be in it. I didn't care what part.
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It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
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I was really into my studies and wanted to be a doctor.
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Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.
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Paint the essential character of things.
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I wanted to play baseball!
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I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
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Painters should shut up and paint and when we stop painting we should dance or have sex or get a massage or take a shower and we shouldn't be talking about painting.
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I grew up thinking art was pictures until I got into music and found I was an artist and didn't paint.
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I've always been a fast reader. Now I had to do it slowly, discussing each sentence. And every time I wanted to change something I had to come up with an intelligent defense I could be pretty sure that they would turn my suggestion down, as they had so many aspects to keep in mind. However, if I argued well, I could have a chance. I had to think of every comma, every word.
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No, I didn't become disenchanted. I just couldn't paint like them.
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Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.
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Vaisey said, "Is it because your parents don't understand you?" Charlie said, "No, it's because our parents understand us very well, and that is why they wanted us to go away.
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Jared told her he used to be an exotic dancer in San Francisco.' 'My body is a gift from God,' Jared said gravely. 'Except for my hips, which are clearly a gift from the devil.
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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard
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I said to Martin Scorsese, 'When are you going to make another film with a woman at the center?'
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I suppose all along all I ever really wanted to do was paint people. That never changed.
