I find painting a much slower process than comedy, where you can go a mile a minute verbally and hope to God that some of the people out there understand you.
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Related When you watch Robin Williams, you can see a lot of Jonathan Winters. Robin is the first one to admi... GILBERT GOTTFRIED Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a lit... PAUL MCCARTNEY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS Confident people, who understand comedy, improvise so much better than people who are scared. You ca... MARLON WAYANS Laughter gives you life, go out and find all the comedy you can... N. S. COLE I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. I think that one of these days," he said, "you're going to have to find out where you want to go. An... J.D. SALINGER I'm just trying to take charge of the offense. Last year, I was thrown in there as a freshman. You'r... CHAD HENNE Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find th... BILLY EICHNER To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... It was just a mishap with a slower guy. I was out there and had no where to go. MAT MLADIN Whatever you choose, however many roads you travel, I hope that you choose not to be a lady. I hope ... NORA EPHRON I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga, Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata... HUSEYN RAZA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Ignorance is a train - you can pretend to understand what the rest of the world is about, but you'll... COLLIN LYSFORD It is a much more involved process, and it takes quite a bit more time. You have to do it slower. Yo... JACK SPRINGER If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you... DANIEL H. PINK I believe that life is a journey towards God, and that no one has the right to insist that you go a ... PAT BUCKLEY You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS I think you have to learn for yourself how to write. I'm slightly mystified by creative writing ... KATE ATKINSON There is a remedy and there is a hope but the remedy is not in the political party or in places that... PATIENCE JOHNSON I WANTED PEOPLE to understand the Minutemen are not about violence. If you are really trying to find... GEORGE TAPLIN Some people can be president, some people can speak, some people, you know, anything that's posi... JUICY J I love hats; I love putting hats on. They are artwork. You can always go out and find a dress to wea... ZARA PHILLIPS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. You can hike for a quarter of a mile and find a beautiful waterfall. MATT LOMBARDI There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facin... CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH If I had to go out there and surf, that would be a problem. But you know, it's just comedy. JON STEWART Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to p... LAUREN OLIVER I've got a few bumps and bruises, but I'm confident that with treatment and a little bit of rest, I'... KIRK HINRICH Have people understand that you can fly out of Toledo to any destination in the world. It's a matter... JAMES HARTUNG To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create so... DAN PINK History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Aut viam inveniam aut faciam tibi. I will either find a way or make one. KENDALL RYAN You still think we can go out there, and we can all run the mile in four minutes, you know, your min... CAITLYN JENNER Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just ... MOLLY CRABAPPLE Our goal is to make sure that people understand how much God loves them and accepts you no matter wh... LISA LONG I like where I'm at, but I have a long way to go. I set a pace and held on to it. I decided to run a... JEFF CAMPBELL When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER Poor people have few choices in life, and most of the time you don't think too much about it. You ge... LISA KLEYPAS There go my people. I must find out where they are going so I can lead them. ALEXANDRE AUGUSTE LEDRU-ROLLIN Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it... PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY I'm busier than I've ever been, but you can go through the lists of people who are bang up t... CHRIS HEMSWORTH I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I... BOBBY W. MILLER You hope and expect that your two new guys can come in and do a job but you never expect that they'l... DANIEL VETTORI Some of the activities that we engage in put you in a position where you can truly understand some o... DAVID KOMANSKY I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened 'Briars;' go out upon tha... WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING Youre gonna grow up and marry some ice cream! Haha! JEFF KINNEY There was much less grip out there today than we had at the test, which can be seen from the lap tim... GIANCARLO FISICHELLA That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't. CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you can't agree on a common vision, how can you work together as partners? I hope the people of W... JOHN DALTON We need hope, or else we cannot endure. SARAH J. MAAS There is drudgery and days when you think 'I can't stand another minute of this' but if you have a p... STEVE MOSS You have to find a hobby, other than football. You have to have an escape. When I go out there, I fo... A.J. DAVIS It is something that I refer to as a little miracle. Boys' Town is a secret that we now want for peo... CARL BROWN When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Film is mostly a visual medium, and so the director has much more control in terms of painting pictu... DAVID LINDSAY-ABAIRE In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silve... ED O'NEILL You might walk around and find a nice restaurant. Then you return to the hotel. Then you go to a mon... ELIZABETH CAPALDI If you're an entrepreneur and you're starting a company, I think the first thing you do is y... DAVE GOLDBERG
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What should weigh is the knowledge that a public broadcaster ... JONATHAN DIMBLEBY Anyone who thinks that you become a journalist or broadcaster in order to be a wallflower needs to t... JONATHAN DIMBLEBY Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken. JONATHAN SWIFT O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre... JONATHAN SWIFT Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places. JONATHAN SWIFT During an open water swim, it's easy to lose your direction. With all the splash, it can be quit... JONATHAN BROWNLEE I have a cameo in every movie. In '50/50,' I'm in the back of the bus. JONATHAN LEVINE Buttons, for me, are very sculptural things, and they are so fascinating. JONATHAN ANDERSON I wrote '33 Men' in eight weeks. Not only was it a combination of simultaneously writing and... JONATHAN FRANKLIN Morality binds and blinds. It binds us into teams... but thereby makes us go blind to objective real... 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not have given them to such a sco... JONATHAN SWIFT He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu... JONATHAN SWIFT Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right, nor do Two Rights Make a Left. Which ever side you think i... JONATHAN BAILEY If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou... JONATHAN SWIFT Since our technology is really just an extension of ourselves, we don’t have to have contempt for ... JONATHAN FRANZEN Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived. JONATHAN SWIFT The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op... JONATHAN SWIFT Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. JONATHAN SWIFT Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno... JONATHAN SWIFT Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires. JONATHAN SWIFT I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ... JONATHAN SWIFT In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju... JONATHAN SWIFT The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w... JONATHAN SWIFT A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart. JONATHAN SWIFT I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blas... JONATHAN KOZOL I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch... JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want. JONATHAN SWIFT