Bram van Velde Quotes
Painting is so stupid, so simple. I paint to get out of the through. I paint my 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.
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When you work with somebody for a long period of time, you develop a shorthand with everything.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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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.
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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.'
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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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.
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People get to choose who they follow, so they follow me for me. It's super humbling and awesome.
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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.
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I'd see an old person on the street and start crying. I couldn't understand how people could cope, knowing they only had so long left. It would be like dominoes and then the last one fell and I'm a little heap on the floor. Doctors put me on anti-depressants for a couple of years.
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So I have four daughters, about ten granddaughters, and five grandsons.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Each person, as they live through history, can't see it all.
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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.
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Growing up in a Mennonite background, there's not much media.
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I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.
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All individual thought is dissolved in universal thought, as all form is dissolved in the universal plastic means of Abstract-Real painting.
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'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'
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We have a lot of property and we take care of it mostly ourselves, so that's what I spend a lot of time doing, which I love because I'm outside.
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Painting is so stupid, so simple. I paint to get out of the through. I paint my misery.
