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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I silently thought, what an awful word.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started doing cartoons when I was about 21. I never thought I would be a cartoonist. It happened behind my back. I was always a painter and drawer.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother to write if they hate what I do?
- Mistakes
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- Nov 07, 2020
You will learn more from your failures than your successes - so embrace those mistakes, as difficult as that sounds, and grow from them. When a project is successful, you're never really sure why, because so many elements come into play. However, when you fail, you always know why. That is how you learn and grow.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trained as a fine artist. I went to a progressive public school in Pennsylvania that developed these talents, but I was never able to apply to a decent college because I had no math, no science - I was allowed to just paint all day and write.
- Politics
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- Nov 07, 2020
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think you can find a mentor by walking up to somebody and saying, 'Hey, be my mentor,' or by sending an e-mail to someone you've never e-mailed before and saying, 'Hey, I want you to mentor me.' But, mentorship really happens in rooms that you're actually in.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never dream in French, but certain French words seem better or more fun than English words - like 'pois chiches' for chick peas!
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sit down and I write what I'm thinking and what I feel - it happens all at once, I never stop writing.
- Playing
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's never easy playing 36 holes when you are concentrating so much for all the shots.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never done a musical, and I don't think I could do one, but I would love to play Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret.'
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- Nov 07, 2020