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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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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Seattle is this curious liberal 'island.'
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Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Every painting is a war. You have to struggle every day, and to struggle every day with your inadequacies is a damn nuisance.
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Maybe the body is taking responsibility where the mind is not. It's scrapbooking for us.
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Reality contains not only evidence, but also the means (such as our minds, and our artefacts) of understanding it. There are mathematical symbols in physical reality. The fact that it is we who put them there does not make them any less physical.
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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.
