Auguste Renoir Quotes
I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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When you know that people know who you are, you are always working - and not the work you want to do. You are sort of performing, because you know they are looking - or at least glancing - at you.
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It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.
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There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
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I don't want to smoke on screen, as I will be sending a wrong message to my fans, and I appeal to my costars too, to avoid smoking scenes if possible.
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When you're working in public radio, you don't have any money to advertise.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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Happiness is very simple and minimal.
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The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.
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There's nothing that I would do to ever endanger this country.
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It's very strange to go from being completely secluded and doing your own work for yourself, to having an audience - and having an audience that's aware of what you do and expects you to do things that they like. It can make things difficult.
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I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.
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The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
