Wayne Thiebaud Quotes
As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.
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I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents.
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Even if you live in a big city, everybody lives in a small town. We identify ourselves by our neighborhoods - 'I live in the Village, or in Chelsea.'
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I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.
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Imagination rules the world.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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People need religion. It's a vehicle for a moral tradition. A crucial role. Nothing can take its place.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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I saw an interview that I did with someone, and I was horrified by it. And I said to my wife, 'This is unbearable how I talk.'
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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I got a manager, and I thought, since I was going out on auditions, I should do this for a living. Then there was this moment on set when I realized I was having a lot of fun, and I really wanted to do this forever.
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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It was difficult to realize, 'I'm lieutenant governor.' And Brown appropriately reminded me of that.
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Don't forget we are in a state of war and no peace. But it's very dynamic and challenging compared to the rest of the Arab world.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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The more you work, the more people can see that you're something different from what's come before.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer.
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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Believing in the one thing That has gotten us this far - That's what love is for To help us through it That's what love is for Nothing else can do it Melt our defenses Bring us back to our senses Give us strength to try once more Baby, that's what love is for.
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The perfect Semite (Jews are not Semites but are Khazars, descended from Japheth) is positive and impassioned. The two elements exercise a reciprocal influence, each moderating what is too excessive and therefore unlikely to live in the other, creating a being apart who easily arrives at domination, for nothing can stop such a man...It is the eternal opposition of Shylock and Jessica. It is the illogical and monstrous mixture of the rarest qualities with the most abject defects, mixture of irresistible force and of irremediable weakness.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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As far as I'm concerned, there is only one study and that is the way in which things relate to one another.
