Wayne Thiebaud Quotes
The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.
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I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it has been.
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A right balance between music and lyrics is important. Music complements lyrics.
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Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach. 'From Here to Eternity' must have seemed like a chore to its director, Fred Zinnemann.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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Actions are always more complex and nuanced than they seem. We have to be willing to wrestle with paradox in pursuing understanding.
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Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse around and interfere with things as best they can. At present, medicine is unable to heal anything.
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In the late 1960s, I ended up in Telluride, Colorado. It wasn't like the country club that it is now. It was very raw. Skiing was there, but snowboarders have now entirely overrun it.
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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When I was in the country and I was trying to play, nobody seemed to pay too much attention to me. People used to say, 'That's just that ole blues singer.'
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The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse.
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In Russia, whatever be the appearance of things, violence and arbitrary rule is at the bottom of them all. Tyranny rendered calm by the influence of terror is the only kind of happiness which this government is able to afford its people.
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Apparently, myths become truths if upheld long enough.
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So at least the people who have another voice and people who are interested in other things can have a place to put their information and be heard.
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I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
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The biggest problems were to do with... well, to get that successful when you're so young, it attracts hangers-on, parasites, people who want to feed off you.
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The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
