Brooke McEldowney Quotes
I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art even cartoon art is never really finished; it is abandoned.
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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I enjoy going out by myself... always have, always will. I don't have security guards, and, for the most part, I enjoy meeting new people. I see myself as a regular guy who likes playing video games with his nieces and nephews and poker with his family. I don't have an art collection or take exotic vacations. I enjoy being at home.
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
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Hard work is not why I have been successful as a model.
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
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My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.
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Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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I've never been someone that was sort of blessed with an innate talent of just being able to do things. I had to work at it and learn from mistakes.
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I want to work with the best coaches in the world.
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
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I always say, one way to connect with a working mother is to ask her what she has done before work that day!
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We need to incorporate that age-old concept of redemption into the work that we do in the criminal justice system in California.
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I just like when I work with people that are professional and good.
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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters.
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I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.
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One day, I saw a statue of Benjamin Franklin, and I said to myself, 'I can do that kind of work, too.'
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The question of world peace, the question of family peace, the question of peace between wife and husband, or peace between parents and children, everything is dependent on that feeling of love and warmheartedness.
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I love '90s grunge and punk.
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It is risky to order a boy not to do something; it immediately opens to him the adventure of doing it.
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Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
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I suppose no matter what I'm drawing, there will always be some sort of question in my mind about it. A work of art even cartoon art is never really finished; it is abandoned.
