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 have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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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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A novel makes it possible to understand not just events, but the people who control the events; not only their choices, but also their motives.
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That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes.
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Life is a series of commas, not periods.
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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
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I am also a writer. That is a fact not known by the public in general.
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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.
