Chantal Joffe Quotes
I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
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Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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Evil report carries further than any applause.
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I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
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This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.
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I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.
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Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.
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It's only because I feel like such a philistine spending all that time in hair and makeup that I started to knit. I used to spend that time studying Italian and French. Then after I had two kids, my brain turned to mush and I took up knitting.
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There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
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Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.
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In South Africa, where HIV-positive children are often shunned, we have an HIV-positive Muppet to teach children to be friendly with children with HIV. But they use local actors. And it's not always a street. Sometimes it's 'Sesame Plaza,' or 'Sesame Tree.'
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I stay in contact with my castmates from 'Atlanta' almost every day.
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Algeria is not breaking up.
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Writing a screenplay is daunting for sure, but I think that Hollywood needs them, so if you can manage to do that, there's certainly a value within it.
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There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.
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I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal.
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Precision of communication is important, more important than ever, in our era of hair trigger balances, when a false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.
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The dollar is coming under pressure across the board, following the FOMC because of the dissenter.
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When I went to college, I discovered the Sega console, and 'Sonic the Hedgehog' became very dear to me.
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The problem is not the claycourt. The problem is, you know, rather something to do with the conditions on center court. Because I've played well on Suzanne Lenglen, on the other courts. But the Chatrier court is really, really big, and I just haven't had enough play on it. Maybe I come here next year and play a week on this court, if I can, if the French Federation lets me. We'll see. I've been playing well in other tournaments, in Davis Cup on clay. So for me it's not the surface, it's rather maybe the court.
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I think most of us are torn. We have at least two people at war in our body. One person wants to retire and grow fabulous tomatoes, and the other wants to stand up on a pedestal and be worshipped and get bigger and bigger and bigger until she explodes.
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I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.
