Wayne Thiebaud Quotes
If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
Quotes to Explore
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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I loved Adam Sandler's early stuff. I thought it was so cool how irreverent and weird he would get.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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Without faith, I don't think I'd be here.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Living in New York City is one constant, ongoing literary pilgrimage. For 20 years, I lived among the ghosts of great writers and walked where they had walked.
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There are lots of come-from-behind wins, games getting tied in the last period, teams going on to win. That, I think, tells the best story. Whether or not some teams have more grit, better chemistry, or more luck or more skill, it's still within the parameters. I think that makes for great storytelling and great interest for our fans.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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In entertainment, there's a theory that you should be lunching and dinnering and going to some kind of power breakfast.
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My whole background, my whole life was just lots and lots of theater, a lot of that being musical theater.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.
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I have music in my brain all the time, all sorts.
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One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing.
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I want to see families with lower energy bills.
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Any piece of art, when you're putting it on a certain platform, if the platform becomes a political place, you can manipulate things.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!
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What you are doesn't matter. Because what you are isn't going to change who you are.
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If you stare at an object, as you do when you paint, there is no point at which you stop learning things from it.
