Edward Sorel Quotes
When a drawing doesn't come out right it's because I haven't figured out where the joke is. Not that every drawing has a joke, but every drawing has a point. At least it should have. And you figure out where the point is.
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I'm old enough to remember in the 1930s and the 1940s when thrift, frugality, was considered an important virtue.
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My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I was thrilled one year when I was younger when not only did my brothers get hockey sticks for Christmas - but I did too!
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Rock and Roll has no beginning and no end for it is the very pulse of life itself.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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I have three closets in my bedroom.
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In L.A., unless you've just won an Oscar or you're Mr. Studio Head, no one talks to you. Even at parties.
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I am basically a private person.
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'Your Erroneous Zones' was the book that went over the top simply because I believed in it so much.
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To sit on a ranch horse that's been broken in, it's like getting in a Porsche.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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My dad is an engineer and works on green energy, so I'm very aware of what it takes to keep a modern home running and how we can simplify.
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Why should I have to prove myself again? Should I have to prove myself till I'm 40? I don't have to prove to nobody I can hit. How about you tell them not to pick it up. Tell him erase it.
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The joke that I make is that there are instances on the TV series that happen to me, - except on Sex and the City they always make it better or worse than real life and I am actually saying that in a joking way.
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Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He recopies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He's convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.
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I think we're all more alike than we want to believe sometimes.
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When a drawing doesn't come out right it's because I haven't figured out where the joke is. Not that every drawing has a joke, but every drawing has a point. At least it should have. And you figure out where the point is.
