Margaret Keane Quotes
People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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When you love someone so much that you are in pain when you are apart it ends up being destructive. I never want to be in that place again.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.
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I really hate to write.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider, did give me an ability to see the country in a slightly detached way. I suppose I was made aware of what Englishness actually is because I only became immersed in it later in life.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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I was famous from birth.
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I don’t fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, 'You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me.' It makes me weepy … but I don’t think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.
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I have a big problem when the sanctimonious, holier than thou congressmen and women go on national television for six hours and beat somebody up with a stick, and not because I'm 'Ms. Manners.' That's not what bothers me. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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I’m sorry for blaming you for everything I just couldn’t do, and I’ve hurt myself by hurting you.
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As we continue to become a society of tweets, shorter and shorter messages, there's great value in the contemplation and reflection that comes from reading a long body of work.
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People either hate my paintings or they love them. There does not seem to be much middle ground.
