Edward Hopper Quotes
I wish I could paint more.. .I do dozens of sketches for oils.. ..if I do one that interests me I go on to make a painting but that happens only two or three times a year.
Quotes to Explore
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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Everything is real on me.
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I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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The non-utility of my kitchen could be transformed into its utility for art. To do a show there would mix art and life, naturally.
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The Highlander was a documentary, and events happened in real time.
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One city can look at other cities relative to their city and learn something. It's a matter of sharing the patterns of what exists in one society based on landscape or cultural values versus other cities.
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I think it can be shown that there is such an unerring power at work in Natural Selection (the title of my book), which selects exclusively for the good of each organic being.
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It doesn't take long to make catchy songs. That's not my problem.
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Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him / Who has met mischance in love.
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Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.
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Love is a pleasing but a various clime.
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I wish I could paint more.. .I do dozens of sketches for oils.. ..if I do one that interests me I go on to make a painting but that happens only two or three times a year.
