Norval Morrisseau (Copper Thunderbird) Quotes
I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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I'm originally from San Francisco. I might move there some day. But, I like L.A., I have fun in L.A. It's a fun town if you've got money in your pocket. It's a good town.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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I see a New York that is once again the empire state.
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It's part of the job to compensate for outfit.
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I think it was much better when you got on your horse and rode two miles to talk to your neighbor.
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The life my grandparents had was thoroughly American. They built a small ranch into a huge operation and fulfilled my great-grandparents' dreams. Theirs was... a simpler time of contentment and patriotism.
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I'm certainly getting a lot more mail... that's basically it.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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I was sure I wanted to grow up to be either a veterinarian or a writer. In fact, I worked for a vet during high school, doing everything from cleaning cages to assisting in surgery.
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The point is to stumble upon things in your life, and not plan them out.
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The real challenge in this line of work is being able to weed the productive ones from the chaff, to decide which you're going to spend the next six to nine months turning into something that people will pay for.
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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.
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If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.
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Our limitations and joys begin in our hearts. We can always replace negative with positive.
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I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.
