Chris Gardner (Christopher Paul Gardner) Quotes
Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.
Chris Gardner
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He greatly valued his possessions, chiefly because they were his, and derived genuine pleasure from contemplating a painting, a statuette, a rare lace curtain - no matter what - after he had bought it and placed it among his household gods.
Kate Chopin
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Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.
M. Night Shyamalan
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Painting is a source of endless pleasure, but also of great anguish.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
Caio Fonseca
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He drove his kind of realism at me so hard I bounced right into nonobjective painting.
Jackson Pollock
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Do activities you're passionate about - which make your heart and soul feel perky - including things like working out, cooking, painting, writing, yoga, hiking, walking, swimming, being in nature, being around art, or reading inspiring books.
Karen Salmansohn
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I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing - more.
Charles M. Blow
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People have said I can come off a little trial-lawyerish. I tell people I never actually became a lawyer, but I play one at City Hall.
Christine Quinn
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I was so intent as a young lawyer on beating the men at their own game that I didn't take any real maternity leave with my three younger children. It is only looking back that I realise I wasn't beating the system but reinforcing it.
Cherie Blair
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Painting seems like some kind of peculiar miracle that I need to have again and again.
Philip Guston
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Stained glass is unique from the outside, but as a painting insider, I know that oil painting's all about light. And it's about the depiction of light, the way that it bounces off different types of skin, different landscapes. The mastery of that light is the obsession of most of my painter friends.
Kehinde Wiley
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When you walk past a painting in a museum, if it doesn't make you feel something, then it's probably a failure.
Kenya Barris
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I get the feeling that characters are written female when they have to be, and all the other characters are male, and it doesn't occur to somebody that the lawyer, the best friend, the landlord, whoever, can be female.
Geena Davis
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Politicians are, in general, receptive to those who make the most noise.
Dan Pink
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I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
Elizabeth McGovern
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'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.
Marilyn Ferguson
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Well, I really don't want to be a high-powered corporate lawyer. I'm really passionate about painting.
Chris Gardner
