Bill Jay Quotes
If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.
Quotes to Explore
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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When I see things in the world that leap out at me, I want to make use of them in fiction. Maybe every writer does that. It just depends on what you claim or appropriate as yours.
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In my own experience, I've found that it's very difficult to make peace with women. We tend to be competitive and feel angry.
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My family lives in Miami, and I always envision myself, if something happens, it'd be like 'The Day After Tomorrow' where I walk across country to find my family. That would be the kind of person I would be. I feel like I wouldn't be as scared. If it happens, it happens. You face it.
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After becoming deaf, I realized that I'd better get an education if I was ever to do anything with my life.
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Managers are the most creative people in the world.
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I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers.
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Age and numbers are a concept made up by man.
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New York and Connecticut belong to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative to cut carbon emissions, and New York City has been a leader in energy efficiency.
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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'
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A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.
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It must be said that today, at the end of its semantic evolution, the word 'terrorist' is an intrinsically propagandistic term. It has no neutral readability. It dispenses with all reasoned examination of political situations, of their causes and consequences.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.
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The problem of a painting is physical and metaphysical, the same as I think life is physical and metaphysical.
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Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense, so a story is life that makes sense.
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If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.
