Bram van Velde Quotes

Painting is so stupid, so simple. I paint to get out of the through. I paint my misery.

Bram van Velde

• Painting
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• Misery

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• Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Place
  • Sides
  • Release

• When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• I'm lucky to be getting a lot of good work in Tollywood. And I won't say I'm choosy, but of course, you have to select the best, and I'm trying to grab as many good films as I can. There was a time when I had to let go of some films which I regret now.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Parents
  • Question
  • Teacher

• We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Think
  • Want
  • Cloud

• Before I had a record deal, I was living in New York and playing anywhere I could, from somebody's house to an open mic to coffeeshops.

  

  Langhorne Slim
  • House
  • New York
  • Living

• People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Follow
  • Super

• Limitations can be hugely creative and hugely inspiring - so long as they are the ones you choose for yourself. I will not allow anyone to take anything off my palette, but if I do, then within that, I can be creative.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Creative

• So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Four
  • Daughters
  • Five

• Here's the thing about Red Sox fans, or actually just fans from that region, in general: they appreciate the effort. And if you mail it in or if you give 80 percent, even with a win, they'll let you know that's not how you do it. They want - if it's comedian, if it's a musician, bring us your best show.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Best
  • Effort
  • Red

• Then there are the 22 million Americans on food stamps. And of course there are the 39 million greedy geezers collecting Social Security. The greatest generation rewarded itself with a pretty big meal.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • Pretty
  • Food

• I'm reading more than ever. I used to find it tedious, but now it's like my little friend - it takes my mind off things.

  

  Billie Piper
  • Mind
  • Reading
  • Friend

• Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.

  

  David Grann
  • Live
  • History

• How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.

  

  Mario Gabelli
  • Bad
  • Water

• Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.

  

  David A. R. White
  • Up
  • Growing

• Because I used to play a lot of sport, I've always been in decent enough shape. When I used to get asked to do a bit of body work before a photo shoot I'd lie and say, 'Yeah, I'm going to the gym.' I literally never did anything.

  

  Jamie Dornan
  • Work
  • Gym

• The TV industry is a corporate world. People come, people go. They leave for growth, money, and many other reasons.

  

  Pratyusha Banerjee
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• I'm fortunate: I can play as long as I want to play. There's no coach or trainer who is going to say to me that I'm dropped or sacked, it's time to move on. I can play as long as I want to play.

  

  Lleyton Hewitt
  • Time
  • Long

• There are a lot of artists in Gowanus, and certain things come into your visual vocabulary from living there - the scale of the subway and the canal, sometimes it almost looks like a de Chirico painting, with the intense angles of the shadows and everything.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Sometimes
  • Painting
  • Shadows

• Justice doesn’t exist! We did worse things. Nobody deserves to go to that place, Alec said. Anyway, weren’t you Christian types supposed to forgive everybody?I will shed no tears for that bastard’s damnation, said Nicholas stonily.No wonder nobody’s left that believes in your stupid religion, said Alec.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Christian
  • Justice
  • Wonder

• I love hearing about bad behavior. It's just so funny to me. Especially, grown ups acting like weird, inconsolable babies over really stupid things, to me, is really funny.

  

  Adam Scott
  • Bad
  • Funny
  • Weird

• People always ask me, 'Why so many historical dramas?' Because those are the best roles I get to play, and I get to play heroes in those roles.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Why

• Painting is so stupid, so simple. I paint to get out of the through. I paint my misery.

  

  Bram van Velde
  • Painting
  • Stupid
  • Misery