LeRoy Neiman Quotes
There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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Blogs are quite a new development - now, everyone wants to know you, everyone wants to know everything about you. And you can build a following that way. In a way, it's a good thing if you want to create a buzz around yourself.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
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I got to see Jack White. I love his new album. There's a song on the album called 'I Think I Should Go to Sleep' that my son loves. We play it on a loop around the house, and he just bounces around.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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You can observe a lot by watching.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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The Army was my bread and butter.
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I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
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Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
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I didn't want to be the girl who posed in 'Playboy' and then - by the way - made some music.
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It's all love or sex these days. Friendship is almost as quaint and outdated a notion as chastity. Soon friends will be like the elves and the pixies - fabulous mythical creatures from a distant past.
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There's no greatest moment in the arts. It's a life, it's a continuity thing. You can't have a great moment because it's spiritual. It's a belief, it's a calling. If you're an artist, doing your own thing on your own, it's while you're doing it that counts. It's a process. If you get too elated, you can get too depressed.
