William McGregor Paxton Quotes
Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.
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Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.
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My chutzpah was me singing to Mario Lanza. So Mario looked at me after I talk-sang 'Be My Love' for the first time; he took the lyric out of my hand as contemptuously as you can take a lyric out of someone's hand, and he sang 'Be My Love' back at me.
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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Here's the thing - I'm single, I haven't been married, I don't have kids yet. If I do have kids I would be interested to see them in my life, so here's a movie for kids and I'm in there and I'm supposed to be kind of funny for kids.
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The German decision to fight is implacable. Even if they were given more than they ask, they would attack just the same, because they are possessed by the demon of destruction.
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Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.
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There is a thing that happens when you are not as privileged and you start hanging out with a seedier crowd because you can afford to do the same things, ... And all of a sudden the big night out is sitting in somebody's trailer, smoking something or getting hold of something to put up to your nose.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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Every man has a long list of things that should be done, but which he knows can't be done. Yet he continues to talk about them as long as he lives.
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Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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To cut out every negative root would simultaneously mean choking off positive elements that might arise from it further up the stem of the plant. We should not feel embarrassed by our difficulties, only by our failure to grow anything beautiful from them.
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You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.
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I sit at my table en grand seigneur,And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor;Not only the pleasure, one’s self, of good living,But also the pleasure of now and then giving.So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho!So pleasant it is to have money.
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As I grew up and began identifying myself as a feminist, there were plenty of issues that continued to make me question marriage: the father 'giving' the bride away, women taking their husband's last name, the white dress, the vows promising to 'obey' the groom. And that only covers the wedding.
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what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.
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True religion is not a mere doctrine, something that can be taught, but is a way of life. A life in community with God. It must be experienced to be appreciated. A life of service. A living by giving and finding one's own happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
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Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.
