Deborah Solomon Quotes
Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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Unworthiness is the inmost frightening thought that you do not belong, no matter how much you want to belong, that you are an outsider and will always be an outsider. It is the idea that you are flawed and cannot be fixed. It is wanting to be loved and feeling unlovable, or wanting to love and feeling that you are not capable of loving.
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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New York is more where art is bought than where art is made.
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You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor.
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Like I said, I'm more worried long term about the environmental issues then the use of arms.
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The bottom line is that there is a lot more that could and should be done to help people with nutrition and exercise.
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Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
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It's always about the music, never about anything else.
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If my subject is alive and is willing to talk to me, I will do it. But I always try to find people who were close, like lovers and family members and work colleagues - because we are what we think we are, but we're also the perception that others have of us. The truth is a sphere. There's always a hidden face.
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To act is to rest.
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As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behaviour.
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I don't have many Russian friends. My childhood friends are dead - either from bad health, or they died in perestroika.
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Mans most disagreeable habits and idiosyncrasies, his deceit, his cowardice, his lack of reverence, are engendered by his incomplete adjustment to a complicated civilisation. It is the result of the conflict between our instincts and our culture.
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Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.
