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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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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Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
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To change man, the audience by which he judges himself must be changed. A man is defined by his audience: by the people, institutions, authors, magazines, movie heroes, philosophers by whom he pictures himself being cheered and booed. Major psychological disturbances, 'identity crises', are caused when an individual begins to change the audience for whom he plays: from parents to peers; from peers to the works of Albert Camus; from the Bible to Hugh Hefner.
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I think that it's fear. The musicians themselves don't seem to know enough about why they're in the positions they're in, so they're afraid to lose those positions. If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.
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It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.
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Never stop listening to your audience.
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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.
