Yance Ford Quotes
My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?
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Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I don't like controversy.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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Hearing a whole entire room sing back to me, 'I guess it's true I'm not good at a one-night stand,' you know, I just can't explain the feeling. It's unreal. You feel like you've just read your diary to thousands of people and they've gone, 'It's okay. We still love you.'
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I'm going to go to school. It doesn't matter what the outcome is as long as I did it. I can say I did it.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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It was once religion which told us that we are all sinners because of original sin. It is now the ecology of our planet which pronounces us all to be sinners because of the excessive exploits of human inventiveness.
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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I was fortunate to have teachers that were flexible with allowing me to miss more class than I was supposed to be able to, for the sake of being able to tour.
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I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.
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Man is never perfect nor contented.
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There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes.
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When I did my first film, I did not understand or speak Telugu.
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I remember vividly as a 15-year-old, in 1964, seeing Derry play Glentoran in the Irish Cup Final at Windsor Park in Belfast. Glentoran were one of the two big Belfast teams, along with Linfield. Any rural team playing them was up against the odds.
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My brother's death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else. I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.
