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.Chantal Joffe
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In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.
A. Philip Randolph -
Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.
Madame de Stael -
Isolation is a dream killer.
Barbara Sher -
Evil report carries further than any applause.
Baltasar Gracian -
I get very antsy and nervous if I don't know what the next job is.
Sam Neill -
I'm proud I'm English and I'm passionate about my country.
Wayne Rooney
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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.
Venus Williams -
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.
Felicity Huffman -
There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.
Alan Moore -
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.
Elie Wiesel -
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.'
Joan Ganz Cooney -
I stay in contact with my castmates from 'Atlanta' almost every day.
Brian Tyree Henry
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Algeria is not breaking up.
Ahmed Ben Bella -
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.
Kyle Mooney -
There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.
Ashton Sanders -
I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal.
John Elway -
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.
James Thurber -
Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.'
Jonathan Raban
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Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.
Barack Obama -
Authors all have at least one thing in common, which is that when we finally get finished copies of our books, we get giddy as kindergartners. We touch them constantly, and build towers with them, and take pictures of our cats and dogs reading them.
Jeff Giles -
The rain, the rain, the rain. You can't even hear it outside the window but still it's a sad thing. Rain, the grade school teachers say, makes the trees and flowers grow, but we're not trees and flower, and so many grade school teachers are single.
Daniel Handler -
I do like to keep mementos from my work, whether they be photos, the backs of make-up chairs or even props and clothes.
Adam Garcia -
I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.
Keeley Hawes -
I really love painting women. Their bodies, their clothes - it all interests me, whereas men really don't that much, in a way.
Chantal Joffe