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Western art is built on the biographical passion of one artist for another.


Jim Dine
Once you've established yourself with hits that become part of people's lives, then they pretty much always want to see you.
Toni Tennille
Tags: You People Always
I really admire people who concern themselves more with how they perceive the world rather than how the world perceives them. I think, as an artist, it's very important to do that. You can limit yourself a lot if you spend too much time caring about what people think of you.
Ben Schnetzer
Tags: Time You People
I have some bad feet. But really, my main fault would probably be my personality. A lot of times, I am not serious enough. I joke around too much sometimes.
Tim Hudson
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We moved around so much when I was a kid, the place I call home is New Orleans because at least I can remember the names of some of the streets there.
Stephen Stills
Tags: Home Because Much
I pretty much only write by default, because I want to make certain projects so instead of trying to wait and find them, I create them, but I'm not really a writer.
Sara Gilbert
I want to find something really wonderful to do next and take my time to search through the dearth of great material, especially for women.
Emily Blunt
Tags: Time Great Women
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi
Tags: You Your Love
When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.
Tennessee Ernie Ford
Tags: Music You Up
I think for an artist it's really important to have experiences, and I've had a lot of those. It's definitely inspired my lyrics and my style, even down to what I wear.
Neon Hitch
Tags: Think Really Had
In NASCAR, you can do a lot of banging around and get pretty serious and even get yourself upside down. All of those things can happen - and then you give an interview two seconds later.
Mario Andretti
Tags: You Get Things
The greenest home is the one you don't build. If you really want to save the Earth, move in with another family and share a house that's already built. Better yet, live in the forest and eat whatever the squirrels don't want.
Scott Adams
Tags: Family Home You
On Mallrats, a lot of times they'd have to come find me. I'd be off hanging around. Looking around the stores, hanging out with people. So, he'd have to come find me.
Jason Mewes
Tags: People Me Out
I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!
Harlan Coben
Tags: Time Best Home
I nearly died three times in 2008, and when you go through those experiences, you realize that you're blessed every day that you wake up. My world changed, my life changed, and with the help of my wife Jane, I was able to survive.
Jon Anderson
Tags: You Up Life
Like any traveler, I'm always looking for those experiences that are almost unique to any place, and watching films around Alaska of the skies in winter made me want to taste those unworldly showers of light in person.
Pico Iyer
Tags: Me Like Always
If you want to succeed in the world, you don't have to be much cleverer than other people. You just have to be one day earlier.
Leo Szilard
Tags: You People Just
I'm very happy with my lot. I like the variety I get. You don't want to spend your life repeating yourself. It's true of any kind of artist, you want to explore as wide and far as you can go, so that's what I've been trying to do.
Toni Collette
Tags: You Like Get
With women and women, I think there's an understanding. Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers, and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
Dana Plato
The best thing to do when you find yourself in a hurting or vulnerable place is to surround yourself with the strongest, finest, most positive people you know.
Kristin Armstrong
Tags: Best Positive You