Wayne Thiebaud Quotes
The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.

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I'm not a Republican.
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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Unfortunately, America doesn't have a minister of culture, and I don't understand why. It's really bad for young people.
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I condemn everyone and anyone who commits acts of terrorism. And Hamas has committed acts of terrorism.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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There's a big debate whether pentathlon or heptathlon is harder: five events in one day or seven in two.
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The rebuilding of Iraq has been terrible.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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In many films, as many different characters, I've killed many different people.
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Managers used to say, 'I have a gut feeling.' Do you know what a gut feeling is for a professional manager? It's a pattern that they recognize. But if your system can recognize that pattern, if it's not just a couple of managers who know that pattern, then the system's gut feeling can tell you which way to go. That's really liberating.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
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The fact that 35 percent of all American giving went to religious organizations in 2010 reflects how closely bound many of us are with our place of worship.
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We can't be useful to ourselves unless we're useful to others .... Anyone concerned only by his own well-being will suffer eventually. Anyone concerned with the well-being of others takes care of himself without even thinking about it. Even if we decide to remain selfish. let us be intelligently selfish - let us help others.
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It does not follow, that because a particular work of art succeeds in charming us, its creator also deserves our admiration.
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And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.
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I probably like being isolated more than many people do, but I'm lucky to have the friendship of many fine people, and they keep me from becoming very isolated. The world of my mind is certainly a populated and warm place, too. It's difficult for me to become too isolated with such resources.
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If you want to make a great sports movie, don't put too much sports in it. It's the backdrop. It's the environment.
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The most important thing is that the work has to be solid [in terms of its formal structure] and that the work accomplishes what it strives to achieve. It has to be genuine - not mannered or stylistically driven.