Andre Derain Quotes
Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard.
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I write songs, and I sing them. I never formulated a plan; I can't tell anyone else how to do this. But it feels right, so I just kind of enjoy it and get on with it.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I get over-excited by every opportunity that comes my way. I end up doing too much.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
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The utilization of flat roofs as 'grounds' offers us a means of re-acclimatizing nature amidst the stony deserts of our great towns; for the plots from which she has been evicted to make room for buildings can be given back to her up aloft.
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Faith is much better than belief. Belief is when someone else does the thinking.
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I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen they were reading about.
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I have the necessary lack of tact.
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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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But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.
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We must keep both our femininity and our strength.
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Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was.
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If you don't vote, you don't count.
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I just think that knowing about your body at any age, whether it's educating yourself on fertility, getting mammograms, going through puberty - whatever it may be, is really important. I just really encourage women empowerment and being comfortable talking about these issues.
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Shortly afterwards, I did a third one to repair the robotic arm of the station. This arm plays a very important role in the ongoing expansion of the station as well as in the deployment of solar panels.
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Great players, they always dig deep and have their will to win.
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I love Marvin Gaye. I like jazz and all that stuff.
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Fauvism was our ordeal by fire... colours became charges of dynamite. They were expected to charge light... The great merit of this method was to free the picture from all imitative and conventional contact.
