LeRoy Neiman Quotes
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The reason I like Portland is the idea of going to a supermarket and knowing there's no way to be recognized. L.A. is so social.
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If I turn on the television, am I to believe that that is America? I'm sorry, I don't believe that's America.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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My father had no influence on my political beliefs, and to imply otherwise is wrong and irresponsible.
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Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
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I think that when something happens when you're growing up, like a death or divorce, it does open the world slightly because things aren't as straightforward.
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Gluttony is not a secret vice.
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I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.
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I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.
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With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
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If I was a woman, I would be dressed in the same thing for a month and just change my hat and gloves. Maybe my shoes too; yes, I see what you mean but, really, it's jewels that change an outfit.
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No one has deputized America to play Wyatt Earp to the world.
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People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
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On this Veterans Day, let us remember the service of our veterans, and let us renew our national promise to fulfill our sacred obligations to our veterans and their families who have sacrificed so much so that we can live free.
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Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
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'Never, never!' whispered she. 'What we did had a consecration of its own.'
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I was heavily into Nirvana and I still am, but when I was 23 I got disillusioned by music. Then I just focused more on myself and gave up music for a while.
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Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.
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Wherever you go, there you are.
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I want to see sunrises in the mountains. You never get to see such things enough in a lifetime. I want to see more.
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If you're a painter, paint. But you don't have to put Jesus in every picture. Paint well, and if you paint well enough, they might ask you why you do that.
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Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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You can't take yourself too seriously.
