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Norman Rockwell quote: "It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting..."

It wouldn't be right for me to clown around when I'm painting a president.

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Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. Mark Twain
I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed. M. F. K. Fisher
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course. Martin Luther King jr.
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The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. Henry B. Adams
All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them. George Orwell
Jose Bergamin quote: "The first condition for making music is not to make a noise."
The first condition for making music is not to make a noise. Jose Bergamin
John Travolta quote: "He lives with his creativity in high gear."
He lives with his creativity in high gear. John Travolta
In Ecuador the Indian mate was too poor to buy Polaroid glasses but he saw the caudal fins of marlin long before my perfect eyes noticed anything. Benny played pool as if the cue stick emerged from his body. Not my alcohol & geometry. She was an asshole and I couldn't have loved her at gunpoint. Jim Harrison
Professor Kettleburn, our Care of Magical Creatures teacher, retired at the end of last year in order to enjoy more time with his remaining limbs. J. K. Rowling
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If Jesus had been a hunchback, they could hardly have nailed him to the cross. Gunter Grass
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I think we were probably playing live for about 12 months before we got a recording deal. Roy Wood
I guess that’s supposed to be deconstruction’s original program, right? People have been under some sort of metaphysical anesthesia, so you dismantle the metaphysics’ axioms and prejudices, show it in cross section and reveal the advantages of its abandonment. It’s literally aggravating: you awaken them to the fact that they’ve been unconsciously imbibing some narcotic pharmakon since they were old enough to say “Momma.” -Interview with Larry McCaffery (1993) David Foster Wallace
Richard Carlson quote: "Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no..."
Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Richard Carlson
The network shows tend to be run, in general, in my experience, by committee, and it's hard for actors and writers to do their jobs. Hope Davis
An estimated 2 million American women will be diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer this decade and screening could prevent up to 30% of these deaths for women over 40. Matthew Lesko