Beatrice Wood Quotes
And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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I started writing half a paragraph of a mystery novel, half a paragraph there, and they were terrible.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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I had never really felt settled in Brooklyn. I think it had to do with growing up in New Jersey and being someone who her whole life wanted to live in the city, and the city meant Manhattan.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.
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It's interesting: in the late '80s, there was this really random mix of new wave, industrial, and these early house records. And a lot of it was coming out of Chicago because of Wax Trax! So I always visited Wax Trax Records.
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You want all your books to stick around after you've gone.
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Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own.
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They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes.
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I hope that it can relate to and be a blessing to anybody, with the hope that someday they will find Jesus Christ to be the same God that I've found Him to be.
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I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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You can't fool yourself anymore that your art is your art. When you're not getting paid for that song that's being traded back and forth among millions of people on the Internet, you have to think like a businessperson.
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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
