Jacob Epstein Quotes

Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends, including Paul Robeson, whose splendid head I worked from in New York. I tried to draw Chinamen in their quarter, but the Chinese did not like being drawn and would immediately disappear when they spotted me.

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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People always think I'm so calm and ethereal. But my family certainly doesn't feel that way all the time. They tease me about it.

Jessica Hecht

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And, frankly, what happens out of Washington is, it creates a wind in my face, uncertainty over Obamacare, uncertainty over their tax policy, uncertainty over the regulatory policy.

John Kasich

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When you have good friends you've been around, every time they talk, you don't give them your full attention. You don't look them in the eye and stop. Half the time, you're listening, half the time, you are ignoring them.

Matthew McConaughey

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I thought it would be interesting to write a song about a lonely person who is scared to see the truth that is right in from of him. I thought it would be interesting if you could watch yourself from a distance.

Matthew Shultz

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Just as we could have rode into the sunset, along came the Internet, and it tripled the significance of the PC.

Andy Grove

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Certainly my dream is to lift the Premier League trophy with Liverpool, and that's what we are trying to do.

Roberto Firmino

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Wexford started off as a very conventional, tough cop and not a very original character because I had no idea I was writing a series, of course. I had no idea I'd created a series character.

Ruth Rendell

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There are some people who have stayed with us our whole career, which is pretty cool too.

Mike McCready

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I've always said I have one skill. That skill - if I have it at all - is storytelling.

Mitch Albom

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I know, in my heart of hearts, I don't do things for money.

Moby

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I love Africa, especially Botswana. I could see myself retiring to a little tree house there one day.

Coco Rocha

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The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns.

Brock Yates

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