Chuck Close Quotes

A photograph doesn't gain weight or lose weight, or change from being happy to being sad. It's frozen. You can use it, then recycle it.

Chuck Close

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When I'm not involved in an acting job I try to run 10 miles a day.

Joan Van Ark

DayJobActingRunTryMiles

As I made my way through 'On Line,' the austere, stridently dogmatic, sometimes revelatory exhibition 'about line' at MoMA, I found myself thinking, 'Someone please wake me when the seventies are over!' In the empire of curators, the sun never sets on the seventies. It is the undead decade.

Jerry Saltz

MyselfSunMeThinkingSomeoneWay

Our contemporary analogues to the personal notebook now live on the web - communal, crowdsourced, and shared online in real time. Some of the most interesting and vital work I come across exists only in pixels.

Jenna Wortham

WorkLiveTimeInterestingPersonal

We are never like angels till our passion dies.

John Denham

PassionAngelsNeverLikeOurTill

Everybody in L.A. has a screenplay. The guy pumping your gas has a screenplay.

Melanie Mayron

GuyGasYourEverybodyPumping

Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger.

Robert Reich

PositivePoliticsAngerBetterTop

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.

John Shirley

WordsWritingDrunkDrinkAwayGet

I never made a daring rescue, which is the story people want to hear. I did go to my share of fires.

Steve Buscemi

PeopleStoryGoWantNeverRescue

I'm not spitting in my own soup, I love having spent my life thinking about these things-but you don't have to know anything about his life, even though I've just written a biography!

Stephen Greenblatt

LifeLoveSoupThinkingMy LifeYou

My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

FatherMotherTogetherDrivePool

I just idolise Nigel Benn, the things he said, how ferocious he was, how intimidating he was - I just loved watching him. As I do the old Mike Tyson, the '89 Mike Tyson. The Tyson who walked to the ring with a white towel on and looked ferocious. He frightened me just watching him.

Tony Bellew

MeLovedWhiteSaidRingWatching

I grew up in Essex, and all my life I wanted to live in London - now I do. I feel very privileged to be able to live here.

Russell Tovey

LifeLiveFeelMy LifeNowLondon

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