LeRoy Neiman Quotes
When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.
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This is who I am: a flyspeck of human vanity in a trillion miles of stone-dead interstellar space; a graceless lump of flesh and fear in a remote desert where nearly everything that I can see or touch is designed to hurt me.
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I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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I just want to do the best things I can do on the field, do the things I know how to in baseball, have fun.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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There is plenty of building material and more than enough manpower to make a decent home for every Cuban. But if we continue to wait for the golden calf, a thousand years will have gone by, and the problem will remain the same.
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Albums are like diaries. You go through phases, technically and emotionally, and they reflect the state that you're in at the time.
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It's not what you wear it's how you wear it, is what I say.
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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Life is such a tragicomedy.
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I personally have a pretty open philosophy about trying to talk to the press, and so does Dan Bartlett.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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Every one of us is different in some way but for those of us who are more 'different,' we have to put more effort into convincing the less different that we can do the same thing as they can... just differently.
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There's no such thing as low-cost fuels.
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I see certain girls get the roles that I auditioned for, and I think, 'Oh, that's so annoying. I should have gotten that role!' But then I have to stop myself and actually think, 'No, she got it for a reason. She worked hard for it, and she was right for the role.'
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Being a fiction writer is really like being an actor, because if you're going to write convincingly it has to sound right and play right. The only way that works is to emotionally and technically act out and see the scene you're in. There's no better job in the world, because when I sit down at that computer I'm the world's best forensics expert, if that's what I'm writing about that day. Or I'm some crazed psycho running down a dark alley. Or I'm a gorgeous woman looking to find a man that night. Whatever! But I'm all of those things, every day. How can you beat that?
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When I paint, I seriously consider the public presence of a person - the surface facade. I am less concerned with how people look when they wake up or how they act at home. A person's public presence reflects his own efforts at image development.
