Cecily Brown quote: "My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that."

I often avoid using the terms 'figuration' and 'abstraction' because I've always...
CECILY BROWN

I'm not the kind of artist who has an idea and then carries it out; it's more like I find wh...
CECILY BROWN

I have always wanted to make paintings that are impossible to walk past, paintings that grab and hol...
CECILY BROWN

When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I ...
CECILY BROWN

Often, I find it really hard to see what I'm doing when I'm in the thick of things. I can ge...
CECILY BROWN

Let's run away."
"To where?"
"Alaska."
"What's in Alaska?"
"No clue," I whisp...
CECILY WHITE

I've never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I'm sometime...
CECILY STRONG

Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr Lord of all pots and pans and things, since I've no time to ...
CECILY HALLECK

I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they'r...
CECILY STRONG

My drama instructor suggested I try comedy. I was resistant at first because I considered myself a s...
CECILY STRONG

I'm not high maintenance, and I'm not into a highly manicured man. I don't want to see a...
CECILY STRONG

I think of myself as kind of a hippy. Everyone around me says that's not the impression they get...
CECILY STRONG

It simplifies the process for people looking to apply for assistance programs.
CECILY FONG

Death is a lot like prom - loud, overdone, and although the guy you came with was cool, you never kn...
CECILY WHITE

During that legislative session (2003), we started a program called Prescription Connection for Nort...
CECILY FONG

At that time it was not called PPA, but they offered us a simple Web site for free, that would allow...
CECILY FONG

I was voted funniest person in my middle-school yearbook. So I guess I was funny in middle school?
CECILY STRONG

It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife a...
CECILY WHITE

I actually graduated from the Chicago Academy for the Arts. I think John Cusack did as well.
CECILY STRONG

When I write on 'SNL,' I've found I'm most productive while collaborating and joking...
CECILY STRONG

There have been some terrible winters in Chicago, where it feels like I'm literally being punche...
CECILY STRONG

I'm generally happier and more easy going when it's warm outside.
CECILY STRONG

Food can be mean to me, but I love it anyway.
CECILY STRONG

I always feel the most validated and confident being around people that I find funny - having Fred A...
CECILY STRONG

I like Instagram - I love pictures, I just don't take them very often.
CECILY STRONG

I do Twitter, but I'm still not great on it - I'm not good at writing short little jokes, so...
CECILY STRONG

You have to put work into relationships to keep them fun.
CECILY STRONG

It sounds so cliched, but I've always been kind of different. I always liked being around weird ...
CECILY STRONG

People have confused playing devil's advocate with being intelligent.
CECILY STRONG

I grew up on 'S.N.L.,' doing all the sketches on the playground.
CECILY STRONG

There's so much more bad information than good information out there - everybody's got somet...
CECILY STRONG

My parents are really funny. Laughter was a big part of my childhood. Of course, they tell a lot of ...
CECILY STRONG

I went to Colby College in Waterville, ME and did picture it when I was writing 'Cum Laude.'...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I'm just a crazy person. I mean, I really didn't have any trouble coming up with weird ways ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I remember, in my senior year, one of my teachers taking me aside and saying: 'You look really t...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

You said she's a senior? Babe we're ALL crazy.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

Give a girl a boyfriend and she becomes a total expert on relationships
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers w...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!'...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

Recently my publicist asked me for a college photo, and I realize how chubby I looked. I know this s...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypi...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

She was spoiled, but she wasn't lazy. She knew what she wanted, and because she believed absolutely ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

No matter the truth, people see what they want to see..
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be s...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

But I've always been fascinated with that prettiest-girl-in-the-class person that I never was, g...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

Open the fridge and put
My heart on a plate.
I'm just as you left
me, and I taste eve...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I avoid the young adult section altogether if possible, although it's sometimes fun to catch a g...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I tend to stare at people and memorize what they're saying and how they say it.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

When I meet other parents and they're more 'mumsy' than I am - you know, I don't wan...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I'd never really babysat. I feel like I'm Blair, or 'Gossip Girl.' A teenager, basic...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

When I was 16, 17, 18 years old, I felt like I had seen it all and done it all, and I was really kin...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't ch...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's ...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I guess I was popular in high school.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're aw...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

Taste of metal on my tongue. Poison the color of envy-
I'm delirious, you're delicious, I'm del...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

It was so typical. Whenever Blair did anything nice for someone else, she usually regretted it.
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinion...
BRENE BROWN

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
CRAIG BROWN

'A Pirate Looks at 40,' we had to do that song. I've been covering that forever.
ZAC BROWN

I don't like cooking just for myself; I enjoy feeding other people, particularly outdoors.
ZAC BROWN

It's an honor to live on a legacy, getting to do what we love to do and try to be the best music...
ZAC BROWN

In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
ZAC BROWN

You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to...
ZAC BROWN

Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platfo...
ZAC BROWN

Some people are gonna hate anything; they're gonna hate when anybody tries to go or do anything,...
ZAC BROWN

We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
ZAC BROWN

I remember the first time I heard 'The Thunder Rolls.' It was dark, and we were driving to t...
ZAC BROWN

I always thought it was sad that you couldn't get anything really good to eat at concerts, so we...
ZAC BROWN

If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
ZAC BROWN

To get to record and to do things with the legends, and with the people that are your musical heroes...
ZAC BROWN

I can't stand having cold air blowing in my ears, so when it's cold at my house, or if I am ...
ZAC BROWN

We're proud to be lifetime musicians and a band that lives like a band and loves the music and g...
ZAC BROWN

I just hope everybody stays with us. We are not trying to be snobs or jerks. We are in a whirlwind t...
ZAC BROWN

It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend ...
ZAC BROWN

To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
ZAC BROWN

We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
ZAC BROWN

Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bi...
ZAC BROWN

I have seen a lot of people, including myself, make a lot of tip money because of 'Black Water,&...
ZAC BROWN

I don't want to look back and say, 'Yeah, I was really successful, but I failed at fatherhoo...
ZAC BROWN

I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before ...
ZAC BROWN

Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for peopl...
ZAC BROWN

Good music makes you feel something.
ZAC BROWN

Forgive those who have hurt you.
LES BROWN

Never give up. And most importantly, be true to yourself. Write from your heart, in your own voice, ...
LOUISE BROWN

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.
LES BROWN

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much late...
CRAIG BROWN

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but...
CRAIG BROWN

We have to live life with a sense of urgency so not a minute is wasted.
LES BROWN

I've been to a few conventions, you know, when the tax man knocks at the door and the 'Star ...
RALPH BROWN

When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to an...
RALPH BROWN

I have to say I wasn't a huge fan of 'Star Wars', and I'm still not, really, but you...
RALPH BROWN

I love doing comedy. I find comedy quite hard work. Comedy's underrated, I think, by actors, you...
RALPH BROWN

The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip ...
VANESSA BROWN

I think it's so important to feed your brain you know. Sometimes you've just got to read.
VANESSA BROWN

So film music is something I absolutely wanna get involved in.
VANESSA BROWN

I actually write film music because I'm classically trained on the piano so as well as songwriti...
VANESSA BROWN

I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired ...
VANESSA BROWN

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.
JAMES BROWN

A winner never whines.
PAUL BROWN

Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.
LES BROWN

What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I b...
BRENE BROWN

Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th...
CHRIS BROWN

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if w...
BRENE BROWN

A liberal will cut off your leg so he can hand you a crutch.
JIM BROWN

Atrocities are human nature - they don't have political beliefs, color, creed or anything like t...
CLANCY BROWN

I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hu...
GORDON BROWN

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Ra...
GRAHAM BROWN

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positi...
LES BROWN

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
LES BROWN

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
LES BROWN

I won't usually make plans with people I don't know on Fridays because all I want to do is s...
BOBBI BROWN

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
PAM BROWN

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your bes...
PAM BROWN

A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To ...
PAM BROWN

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.
PAM BROWN

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then ...
PAM BROWN

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.
PAM BROWN

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
PAM BROWN

The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling...
PAT BROWN

Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens,...
PAT BROWN

Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
PAT BROWN

Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
PAT BROWN

Nowadays, with much more racial and ethnic mixing, we are seeing serial killers murdering a variety ...
PAT BROWN

Most well-known serial killers have victims numbering in the dozens, have sent taunting letters to t...
PAT BROWN

Evidence can vary depending on the circumstances, the weather, and how long it has been hanging arou...
PAT BROWN

While there are many wonderful police investigators out there doing some very fine work, the majorit...
PAT BROWN

What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the...
PAT BROWN

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low we...
PAT BROWN

Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much ali...
PAT BROWN

Serial killing is not about sex at all, but about power and control and revenge on society.
PAT BROWN

Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public...
PAT BROWN

Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good bo...
PAT BROWN

Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
PAT BROWN

Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
PAT BROWN

Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
PAT BROWN

Telling the community a serial killer is out there stirs up a lot of unpleasant attention.
PAT BROWN

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to jus...
PAT BROWN

We assume people we know can't be serial killers.
PAT BROWN

Often, a serial killer has no felony record.
PAT BROWN

All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
PAT BROWN

There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
PAT BROWN

In reality, those rare few cases with good forensic evidence are the ones that make it to court.
PAT BROWN

Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelli...
LES BROWN

John Kitzhaber was a visionary leader for Oregon.
KATE BROWN

State government's efforts to address climate change must include reduced consumption and other ...
KATE BROWN

It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education...
KATE BROWN

High-quality public education - combined with other appropriate support, as needed - is the best way...
KATE BROWN

Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like...
KATE BROWN

The challenge is sort of capturing the issues that Oregonians feel strongly about and moving forward...
KATE BROWN

Oregonians continually demonstrate a strong belief in fairness and equal treatment under the law.
KATE BROWN

I'm very committed to stable and adequate funding for education.
KATE BROWN

Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keepi...
KATE BROWN

Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
KATE BROWN

Before swearing in new citizens, immigration officials check to make sure prospective citizens weren...
KATE BROWN

Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed ...
KATE BROWN

Water is the foundation for our economies, communities, ecosystems, and quality of life.
KATE BROWN

Public health and safety are my highest priorities.
KATE BROWN

My personal view is that I am opposed to the death penalty.
KATE BROWN

Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public educat...
KATE BROWN

I have spent my career fighting to make Oregon a place where everyone can thrive.
KATE BROWN

I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in reg...
KATE BROWN

I realized I could make a difference. I could be their voice; I could fight for them... There's ...
KATE BROWN

No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
KATE BROWN

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market pri...
JERRY BROWN

Martin Luther King was a misguided leader. He worked to be recognized as the leader of black America...
JIM BROWN

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it...
ERIC BROWN

A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbl...
ALTON BROWN

I would love to have a role with the Browns. I think that's what every ex-player would like to d...
JIM BROWN

I'm stuck with being No. 32 for the Cleveland Browns. I can't do anything about that, and I ...
JIM BROWN

I drew a lot of inspiration from the Ginuwines, the Ushers, the Michael Jacksons, the James Browns, ...
CHRIS BROWN

But I always knew when I got to the Brussels sprouts, I was on thin ice.
AARON BROWN

What planet have these people been living on?
AARON BROWN

Jeanne conveyed a human being's view of what she saw. Her reporting was incredibly solid. Her humani...
AARON BROWN

He was that guy who lived and breathed it. He should have had another 10 years' worth of stories to ...
AARON BROWN

But the story to me today is that the guy I really believe was the best anchorman ever born died muc...
AARON BROWN

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news.
AARON BROWN

Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news.
AARON BROWN

People sometimes think we're a bunch of wacky thrill seekers, ... And no one who has listened to the...
AARON BROWN

To the Indians it seemed that these Europeans hated everything in nature - the living forests and th...
DEE BROWN

I have no problem with the security... It's something that must be done for the times in which w...
AARON BROWN

We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the new...
AARON BROWN

I know the difference between journalism and a slogan.
AARON BROWN

No one wants to hear the truth if it isn't what they want to hear.
AARON BROWN

Television is the most perfect democracy. You sit there with your remote control and vote.
AARON BROWN

TV news is what you want it to be, and if you want it to be different, take a look at what you watch...
AARON BROWN

I love a bright lip with a neutral eye. It's an easy, wearable look that gives brightness to you...
BOBBI BROWN

Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that ...
CRAIG BROWN

The most versatile lipstick you can own is a shade that's just a bit brighter than your natural ...
BOBBI BROWN

Eli's having a good year. You give up seven goals, you think you probably have a chance to win. It w...
AL BROWN

Their goalie played well. He made some big saves. That kid was pretty good.
AL BROWN

I think we lost our focus, and one of the things we've been talking about all year is being mentally...
AL BROWN

That basically allows companies that are already emitting levels that are above a health-based stand...
AL BROWN

The big thing for us now is to go back to our roots. That is membership. We aren't supported by tax ...
AL BROWN

My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that.

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My process is really quite organic, and starting a painting is one of the best parts for me. I always start in quite a loose and free way. I often put down one ground colour to begin with and then play off that.

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