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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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 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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As a kid, I loved 'Godot' because of the poetry and the humor and the strangeness, but then as you get older, it's much more resonant.
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Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn't get there.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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What's wrong with Hell's Kitchen? You don't change a neighborhood by changing its name. You change it by building a school.
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I usually travel with a lot of people, like my dad, mom and sisters.
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I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
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All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.
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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.
