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Recording a scene with paint rather than film sinks you more deeply into your surroundings. You have to look a little harder and a little longer. And you end up with a memento.
Susan Minot
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I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.
Takeshi Kitano
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I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.


Georgia O'Keeffe
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Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
Virginia Woolf
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Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights and owing certain duties to each other.
Millard Fillmore
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You paint what you know best; what you went through as a teenager and child. My world is the one I got to know in Medellin; I never paint anything else other than that.
Fernando Botero
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She is elegant rather than belle.


Wilfred Owen
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Children need models rather than critics.


Joseph Joubert
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I would rather be right than President.


Henry Clay
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Friendships are discovered rather than made.


Harriet Beecher Stowe
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My thinking is Lincolnian rather than Jeffersonian, Teddy Rooseveltian rather than Franklin D. Rooseveltian.
Jacob K. Javits
I love paint. I like watercolours. I like acrylic paint... a little bit. I like house paint. I like oil-based paint, and I love oil paint. I love the smell of turpentine and I like that world of oil paint very, very, very much.
David Lynch
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The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
Charles Sturt
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We are servants rather than masters in mathematics.


Charles Hermite
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I'd definitely rather be rich than famous.


Radha Mitchell
How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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I'm a racehorse fanatic rather than a football fanatic.


Steve McManaman
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Clear thinking requires courage rather than intelligence.


Thomas Szasz
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I'd rather be running the game than playing it.


Steven Brust
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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.


Madeleine L'Engle
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