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.
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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I stayed in the astronaut program until 1993. People ask me why I left. I thought I had a lot of things to contribute that would be difficult to do if I stayed. I thought I could have a stronger voice as an advocate for space exploration. So I ended up starting my own technology consulting company.
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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The best thing we can do to help small-business owners succeed is cut spending.
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Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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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.
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Nobody wants to retire from football.
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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.
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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.
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The average Englishman has no idea of the dynamism in the music scene here.
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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.
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Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.
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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.
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My life and my happiness is most important to me than any job or anything in the world.
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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.
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People have these ideas of what you're supposed to do to have a career, like play against type, or don't revisit a character. I'm just not that precious.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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We think next year will be a very different story as excess global liquidity, the driver for carry trades, is drained by central banks.
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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.
