William Dobell Quotes
my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.
William Dobell
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
Dan Simmons
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
Victoria Osteen
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If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.
M. C. Gainey
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
LaDainian Tomlinson
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Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.
Bear Grylls
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The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
Viktor Orban
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
Kabir Bedi
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I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
Xenophanes
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The more I talk to people who are at a place I'd like to be at, whether its music or writing, or being a doctor or entrepreneur, sometimes you get lucky, and right away something happens. But for most people, the common denominator of success is just working really hard.
K. Flay
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
Nargis Fakhri
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I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.
Kate Spade
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There are probably more fact-finding tours of Nicaragua right now than there are facts- the country has shortages of practically everything.
P. J. O'Rourke
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When I came into your life your life was over. It had a beginning, a middle, and an end. This is the end. You can say that things could have turned out differently. That they could have been some other way. But what does that mean? They are not some other way. They are this way. You're asking that I second say the world.
Cormac McCarthy
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I did everything, I used to be a drag queen, I used to be a stripper.
DeObia Oparei
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The dream is to have it all. Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too? Live this life, that life, this life, you know? You only live one time - I want to get it all in.
Paul Walker
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We passionately long that there may be another life in which we shall be similar to what we are here below. But we do not pause to reflect that, even without waiting for that other life, in this life, after a few years we are unfaithful to what we have been, to what we wished to remain immortally.
Marcel Proust
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my sitters get tired waiting for commissioned portraits. If they commission me they have to wait years sometimes because I discard so many.
William Dobell
