Jacob Epstein Quotes

I cannot recall a period when I did not draw; and at school, the studies that were distasteful to me, mathematics and grammar, were retarded by the indulgence of teachers who were proud of my drawing faculties, and passed over my neglect of uncongenial subjects.

Jacob Epstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: sculptor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: November 10, 1880 - August 19, 1959

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When you have a lot of communication online before you go out with someone, it builds up a false sense of who the person is. There's a tendency to fill in the blanks with positive information.

Joanna Coles

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Before games and sometimes practice, I like something with a dope beat. Like Rick Ross, when he's just like, 'RUH!,' all that stuff.

Joel Embiid

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Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.

Stephen Lang

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For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now.

Janine Benyus

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I'm not a bad parent and partner, even if I make a thousand mistakes.

Diane Lane

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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.

Derek Jarman

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I came along at a time when the industry was eating its young.

Chely Wright

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I like the unknown.

Colbie Caillat

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I can't get inside the head of a politician today.

Brian Kilmeade

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The Lib Dems are not just empty. They are a void within a vacuum surrounded by a vast inanition.

Boris Johnson

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Fracking has been used for more than 60 years to successfully drill over a million oil and gas wells in the U.S. Nonetheless, the prevailing mythology on the radical left is that the technology is 'poisoning our children' by polluting the water we drink and the air we breathe.

Bob Beauprez

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The background of any artist is shaped by the first 15 years of his or her life.

Pete Hamill

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