Walter Tracy Quotes
A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.
Quotes to Explore
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There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.
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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.
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When you're with your club team, every week you have a performance to judge. But when you're with the national team, it's a little different because you might not play for three or four months at a time. Things change constantly.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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I have a question, a question for the president: Do you hate all rich people, or just rich people who don't contribute to your campaign? Do you hate poor people or do you just hate poor people with jobs?
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Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.
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It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
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A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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I actually never liked writing on my own or in school until I'd had my blog for a while and realized I'd been writing every day for years.
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'I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.' No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.
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Tell Père Tanguy to send me some paints. What I need most are ten tubes of white, two of chrome yellow, one bright red, one brown lac, one ultramarine, five Veronese green, one cobalt j I have on hand only one tube of white ... I expect to begin to paint again from nature, and I need the colors.
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To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
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It is in the nature of science that once a position becomes orthodox it should be suggested to criticism.... It does not follow that, because a position is orthodox, it is wrong.
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He'll put up with you for a little while, but then he wants to kick and play.
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When I look at things, I always see the space they occupy. I always want the space to reappear, to make a comeback, because it's lost space when there's something in it. If I see a chair in a beautiful space, no matter how beautiful the chair is, it can never be as beautiful to me as the plain space.
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When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile's studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square. I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.
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A great typeface is not a collection of beautiful letters, but a beautiful collection of letters.
