Chuck Close Quotes

I think I was driven to paint portraits to commit images of friends and family to memory. I have face blindness, and once a face is flattened out, I can remember it better.

Chuck Close

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Again, with two small children it's incredibly hard to commit yourself to anything because you're just getting interested in it and someone comes along and goes I want Thomas The Tank Engine on, and screams the place down until you put it on.

Jo Brand

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I owe my whole career as a storyteller to my father. He was an actor/director/producer and teacher.

John Lithgow

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Ever since I dated a woman, I know what it is to grab a curve on a woman's body. Skinny's not fine when the lights are low.

Angelina Jolie

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The networks have to answer to their sponsors. That's the difficult thing you learn.

Jean Smart

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Our independence from AOL was so important to me that I negotiated an extremely odd provision in our purchase agreement that allowed me to disclose confidential information about AOL. It was their job never to give me that information. It was not my job to protect it in any way.

Michael Arrington

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At the World Bank, we are already working with our clients in developing countries to improve their governance systems, collect taxes, fight corruption, and recover stolen assets.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

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One of my favorite things in the world is to be seeing two people that are really old, still holding hands, still kissing.

Tommy Lee

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Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip.

Russell Crowe

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I dream of living off the land completely - in vain, because the monkeys eat everything.

Mira Nair

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Bottom line: If you can't spare some time to give your employees the chance to wow you, you'll never get the best from them.

Jason Fried

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In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I began to feel that the story that I was told about this religion wasn't perhaps completely whole, that something was left out.

Chinua Achebe

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To doubt is worse than to have lost; and to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

Philip Massinger

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