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Chuck Close Quotes

The first thing I do is take Polaroids of the sitter - 10 or 12 color Polaroids and eight or 10 black-and whites.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: artist
Nationality: american
Birth: July 5, 1940

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Color First Take Eight Thing Whites

For a while, I had a rule of no smartphone in bed, but now I've upgraded to no smartphone in the bedroom. The fact that we need rules shows how much these things have invaded our lives.

John Lanchester

Rules Bed Now Bedroom Need Things

You have to be willing to accept the idea that people may think you're stupid.

People Stupid Think You Accept May

I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Myself Soul I Am Sin Anything Sure

The idea that growth will remedy our debts is so addictive for politicians, but the citizens end up paying the price.

Growth End Price Will Politicians

Studies have identified a significant 'skills gap' between what students are currently being taught and the skills employers are seeking in today's global economy. Our children must be better prepared than they are now to meet the future challenges of our ever-changing world.

Future Today Children Challenges Now

I'm in awe of directors like the Coen brothers who can shoot their script and edit it, and that's the movie. They're not discovering the movie in postproduction. They're editing the script they shot.

Editing Awe Shoot Who Like Shot

After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work.

Life Work Change Success People

Hockey is the original extreme sport.

Hockey Original Extreme Sport

I am certain - I am deadly certain that we cannot win this war unless we are free to call our enemy by name: Radical Islamicists and failed tyrants.

Michael T. Flynn

I Am War Win Free Name Enemy

That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

Success Great Time Baseball World

I grew up with classical music when I was a ballet dancer. Now when I have to prepare an emotional scene, to cry or whatever, I listen to sonatas. Vivaldi and stuff. It's just beautiful to me.

Music Beautiful Me Now Cry Listen

With health care, somebody at some point decided that there was a bright line and that you had to pick sides. Well, I reject that view.

Health Care View You Bright Line

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