Wayne Thiebaud Quotes
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I'm happy pretty well anywhere on this big, beautiful planet.
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I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?
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When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.
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Most important thought, if you love someone, tell him or her, for you never know what tomorrow may have in store.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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The Web provides a very easy way to immediately grasp what's going on. It really offers the transparency, so you can see, especially with the search engine, how people are using Twitter at one glance. The phone doesn't allow for that.
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For me, the movies I like are all independent. And getting an independent feature made, it's like you get down to the selling organs part, and it just loses some of its luster.
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I have a lot of blurring between fiction and non-fiction in so many of my works. For example, my first novel, 'When Nietzsche Wept,' has a great deal of non-fiction in it. I didn't create many characters at all. Almost all of them are historical characters that actually existed.
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The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of tremendous elevation and even elation.
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Well, marriage is a very important part of our culture and our society. If we want to have a hopeful and decent society, we ought to aim for the ideal.
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It was nice to have a break from acting - there's a lot more to life than acting. And that's important - to be a good actor, you have to know that and to live that.
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When you're about to give up and your heart's about to break, remember that you're perfect, God makes no mistakes.
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I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
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Painting is more important than art.
