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.
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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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Peyton Royce and Billie Kay are two phenomenal workers; I would love to see them up here on Smackdown. They're great girls with great talent. A bit of momentum, and we're going to see amazing things from them.
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The majority of people are perfectly capable of interacting with retail staff without spitting on them or whipping their hides like dawdling cattle, but Planet Earth still harbours more than its fair share of disappointments.
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I’m a very introverted person and this whole constant self promotion that musicians are forced into these days is something I can’t stand, because fans, media and music industry people spend more time looking at social media stats than actually listening to the music.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin', crunchy granola's neat.
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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.
