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When I get my hands on painting materials I don't give a damn about other people's painting... every generation must start again afresh. ↗

— Maurice de Vlaminck

#afresh #again #damn #every #generation

When I was in high school at Northeast Catholic in Philadelphia in the late '30s, I found that drawing caricatures of the teachers and satirizing the events in the school, then having them published in our school magazine, got me some notoriety. ↗

— Bil Keane

#catholic #drawing #events #found #got

The sicker mother got, the stranger the people surrounding her became. I called them The Garland Freaks. ↗

— Lorna Luft

#called #freaks #garland #got #her

Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it. ↗

— Al Stewart

#boxing #fellows #fight #fighters #floyd

When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!' ↗

— Sally Field

#born #congratulations #doctor #i #i was born

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#back #end #enormity #face #first

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal. ↗

— Anatole France

#eternal #know #life #short #short life

I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

#began #being #block #cycle #end

If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#choose #film #gun #had #head

The use of military force against Iran would be very dangerous. It would be very provocative. The only thing worse would be Iran being a nuclear power. ↗

— Rudy Giuliani

#being #dangerous #force #iran #military