George Tooker Quotes
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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You don't try to do more than you should.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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I love to write.
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I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly diminish, but I think I am getting wiser in how to use my physical skills. That's the frustrating part when you put so much heart and desire into things and feel like you are not wanted.
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I looked through our catalog year by year, and I saw that there were pockets of time when we wrote some terrific songs. Then all of a sudden, we'd go for another two or three months and there weren't great songs.
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Everybody has their own story - it's who you are. If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am!
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I am very much a Republican.
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There is always that one person in our lives who we deeply love, and that person can also destroy us.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's platforms, the key seems to be that any one of these spaces can use a dose of humanity and art and culture.
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When you get on a good horse, you just know. They are powerful, they stop quickly, they can turn in both directions, and they are fast.
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For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.
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So if you don't like your life, change it. How would you change it? You decide. There's no action without first decision. Decision is the mother or the father of action, and action is what changes your life.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
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There are as many solutions as there are human beings.
