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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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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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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My plan is to have a theatre in some small town or something and I'll be manager. Ill be the crazy old movie guy.
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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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The summer before I started college, my parents walked everywhere instead of taking the bus. Once a week, they would hand over $10 to the university housing office, a deposit so I could move into the dorms in the fall.
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You can't win 'til you're not afraid to lose
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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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The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.
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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.
