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Claude Monet Quotes

No one is an artist unless he carries his picture in his head before painting it, and is sure of his method and composition.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: french
Birth: November 14, 1840 - December 5, 1926

Topics

Painting Picture Artist Head Sure

After I finished my first draft of 'Salvage the Bones,' I felt that I wasn't political enough. I had to be more honest about the realities of the community I was writing about.

Community Writing Political Enough

Movies, like old-school TV, are cheesy, corny. Movies are not exciting anymore. They're not cutting edge.

Edge Movies Exciting Cheesy Like TV

I like restraint. Even with actors, restraint is something that I work on the most.

Work Something Restraint Like Even

I was always at heart a novelist and wanted to tell a bigger story, so I wanted to create people who told other kinds of truths than literal truths.

Heart People Story Create Tell Who

It helps with your acting when you're not in a perfect costume, perfect wardrobe, a perfectly seamed blouse, perfectly ironed hair, and perfectly done eyeshadow. It's really liberating.

Trieste Kelly Dunn

Hair You Perfect Acting Done Your

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

Man You Film Well Your Falls

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

Live Childhood Poverty Country Rural

I always thought of myself as James Bond.

Myself Bond Thought Always James

When I started performing, there was no Internet; I didn't really have anything to copy. I kind of had to just make up what I thought burlesque was, based on photographs of Sally Rand or whatever.

Thought Internet Copy Kind Anything

We play a very violent sport, and sometimes it leads to a lot of emotion, a lot of testosterone getting built up, and it comes out in various ways.

Play Sometimes Emotion Out Up Built

The secular argument, or the liberal argument, is to as much as possible remove taboos so things do not become unmentionable; to let some air into the discussion.

Christopher Hitchens

Argument Become Possible Air Things

I don't look for roles, for they come to me. Mind you, it's not like I'm sitting in the middle of the floor with thousands of scripts around me. When work comes up, it's good. I love it. Work doesn't feel like work.

Cloris Leachman

Work Love Good Mind Me Look

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