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And I started with this: I have not painted at all my childhood. In fact, I never painted. But I helped my father who was a house painter and decorative painter. He made stage sets, he made glass paintings, he made everything. ↗

— Josef Albers

#decorative #everything #fact #father #glass

The woman I am currently crazy about was a vegetarian for a year until I started dating her. As is the case with most vegetarians, she had never eaten properly prepared meat, only commercially packaged or otherwise abused flesh. ↗

— Steve Albini

#am #case #commercially #crazy #currently

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life. ↗

— Alan Alda

#anything #back #bring #dead #deeper

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new. ↗

— Jean Alesi

#everything #experience #improve #keeping #little

Speaking as a builder, if you start something, you must have a vision of the thing which arises from your instinct about preserving and enhancing what is there. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#arises #builder #enhancing #instinct #must

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#like #myself #please #read #started

Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents. ↗

— Tatyana Ali

#because #before #brainwashing #choice #college

We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it. ↗

— Gary Allan

#ate #barbecue #compete #drank #each

When I joined Granada - which, you don't want to start crying about these things, but Granada was a very, very hot place to be, it was my good fortune to be there at that time - the BBC was firmly asleep. ↗

— Michael Apted

#asleep #bbc #crying #firmly #fortune

Then I started listenin' a lot to classical composers. Piano works. Just to see what they were doin'. That sort of put me in a different groove to try to blend all that in. ↗

— Mose Allison

#classical #classical composers #composers #different #doin