William McGregor Paxton Quotes
Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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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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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
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As a European I had fit in almost seamlessly in New York for the last 25 years, but in Oklahoma I stood out like a sore thumb.
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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 feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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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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Being single has its ups and downs, and being in a relationship has its ups and downs. It depends on how you balance it and how you handle your problems within your relationship.
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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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Almost everything I do is related to being fat.
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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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When I'm writing for other people, I have to play it safe.
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The human mind has no more power of inventing a new value than of planting a new sun in the sky or a new primary color in the spectrum.
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The arts, as a reflection of human existence at its highest, have always and spontaneously lived up to this demand of plenitude. No mature style of art in any culture has ever been simple.
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You never help others by allowing them to getaway with giving less than their best efforts.
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Painting is so difficult that I would give it up if it were not so enjoyable.
